The Nazis were a political party that in Germany rose to prominence under the direction of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Hitler blamed the economic ills of the day on ethnic and religious minorities, and promised to make Germany great again.
OK, so maybe they do know what they're talking about.
Hitler and the Nazis rode a wave of populist outrage into the highest offices of power, exterminated millions of people and set out to conquer Europe. Anyone who passed 10th grade history should know this already, but did your teacher tell you how they bankrolled the war effort?
Legend has it they looted every place they conquered and accumulated a massive stash of what's now referred to as "Nazi gold."
By the way, this week's Thursday Thriller is Dead Snow.
This 2009 film by Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola is about a group of medical students on a skiing trip who find some of the famous Nazi gold in their cabin, inciting the ire of a bunch of Nazi zombies who will stop at nothing to protect their booty. They're kind of like ghost pirates, but with swastikas instead of skulls and crossbones.
When I first watched this movie a couple years ago, I didn't care for it. Maybe I was just in a bad mood, but it seemed a little too desperate to make countless nods to other horror films, most especially Evil Dead. As I watched it again this week, though, I was a lot more taken with the gory action sequences and found it to be a lot of fun. It's one hell of a bloody movie.
Dead Snow streams on Netflix and Shudder.
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