The new film "Die Welle" by Dennis Gansel is described 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 (under the pen name Morton Rhue). 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, which originated in 1892, and became 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 when
Francis Bellamy, a self-proclaimed national socialist, wrote the Pledge
of Allegiance (in 1892), the origin of the straight-arm salute and robotic
chanting to flags in government schools (socialist schools). That history
has been exposed by the distinguished historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of
"Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
The salute gesture in the film and the book are essentially the same gesture
that was sometimes used in conjunction with America's stiff-arm salute and
later, when the stiff-armed portion of the salute was abandoned. Francis
Bellamy's initial military salute (which was then extended out toward the
flag into the stiff-arm salute) was altered to a military salute to the chest.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-images.html#THE_TRUE_SALUTE
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 too 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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