New Film Die Welle: From an American Classroom to the German Screen!

Rex Curry

The new film "Die Welle" by Dennis Gansel is advertised with the slogan "From an American Classroom to the German Screen!" The film shows no understanding of how true that slogan is.

There is also another film version of the story entitled "The Wave" directed by Alexander Grasshoff for television in 1981. Both films are based on the book by Todd Strasser. The book is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.

By the year 1969, most people had forgotten, or not experienced, what had happened 27 years before (in 1942 Congress began its effort to change America's stiff-arm salute, the origin of the salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers' Party). see the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4

Dennis Gansel, Alexander Grasshoff and Todd Strasser have knowledge of 1969, but they do not seem to know about American history that began in 1892 when Francis Bellamy, a self-proclaimed national socialist, wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, the origin of the straight-arm salute and robotic chanting to flags in government schools (socialist schools). That history has been exposed by Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html

In Strasser's book the powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as German National Socialism (Nazism) are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students.

Before long "The Wave," with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action," sweeps from the classroom throughout the entire school. As most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of "The Wave" and realize they must stop it before it's too late. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-scouting.html

In reality they were to late.

It spread throughout the entire school and it kept going. Bellamy's mechanical socialism spread nationwide, and then worldwide. It remains here today.

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The Tampa Tribune Newspaper and its writers, Daniel Ruth and Elaine Silvestrini, were exposed and defeated in recent public debate challenges about the topics above. Learn more at http://rexcurry.net/elaine-silvestrini-tampa-tribune.html

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Rex Curry is published worldwide as a libertarian and a lawyer with a degree in journalism. http://RexCurry.net is the only site on the internet that collects and displays historic photographs of the original Pledge of Allegiance. Rex collects historic photos that show how socialism has harmed the U.S., and his hobby is also photography and graphic art, displayed on the website. His predecessors helped settle Key West back when Florida's government was virtually non-existent. The Curry Mansion (historic home of Florida's first capitalist millionaire) is still on the local tour.

Rexy@ij.net