What do you think Nazi Germany would've done for it's Opening Ceremonies in 2008?

[charlie and algernon]

Had they gotten to hold it now instead of 1936.

[cherokeeprogressive]

1. Who CARES?

[charlie and algernon]

2. well considering we're watching a brutal dictatorship try to whitewash it's past

so I think it's relevent since the Nazis got their olympics at the height of their power.

[NashVegas]

12. By Hiring the Guy Who Made Movies About Their Brutal Dictatorship

Brilliant!

[Lost-in-FL]

3. Like we have the moral authority to make an opinion.

[BeyondGeography]

5. No kidding...lots of chest thumping here tonight, meantime, China has produced a masterpiece

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/08/08/sports/0808-CEREMONY_index.html

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Actually, I read something about Riefenstahl's camera work...

...she did the thing with the camera following divers as they jumped off the board and dove into the water.

Her cameras even went under the water.

And she even had cameras race along side sprinters as they ran, too.

So, I guess for me, the Nazis would do some amazing propaganda work, which people will ignore for nearly 60 years and reintroduce pretending that a former actress didn't come up with the idea.

[On the Road]

6. I Tell You One Thing,

they wouldn't have done this.

[Sulawesi]

7. The drummers did remind me of goose stepping soldiers, not sure why

[ellisonz]

9. Because they are soldiers?

9,000 of the 15,000 involved are conscripts on loan from the PLA.

[derby378]

8. Lots and lots of dancing water sculptures

IIRC, Germany invented pressurized water fountains during the Third Reich along with magnetic tape and methadone. But they'd probably contrast the dancing waters with a bonfire in which they burn all sorts of dissident political, philosophical, and religious works - including any surviving works of the author in my sigline.

[WeDidIt]

10. Dictatorial regimes have proven time and again

they can put on an awesome show.

[oyvind]

11. China did a really good job

Some of the people trained for 10 months just to do their task, during the opening.

They did a good job, because even I forgot about Tibet and the torture and the human right violations for a few minutes, while i watched it.

Maybe I've become brainwashed too. :(

[Occam Bandage]

13. I've never seen such a display of sour grapes.

"Oh, China has some bad shit in its recent history!"

Guess what? So do we. You want to compare the last two hundred years, us v. them? Yeah, didn't think so.