The rewards of affirmation

Linda Schulte-Sasse writes of Nazi historical films that they „assume a fore­knowledge on the part of the … viewer, and their pleasure generally derives less from teaching new material than in affirming the audience’s foreknowledge, allowing it to savor what it already ‚knows.‘ “

—Robert G. Moeller, „Every German Will Speak of This Battle“, in Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century, Bartov, Grossmann, Nolan eds., (New York: The New Press, 2002), 163-164.