The cast of The Man In The High Castle on how they resist immunity to Nazi imagery

After a two year hiatus, The Man In The High Castle, the alternate history, Axis-powers-won-the-Second-World-War drama, returns to Amazon Prime this Friday. Set in the (obviously) fictional Greater Nazi Reich, the show has never exactly been shy about about its use of Nazi imagery-remember those MTA ads? For members of the cast, the constant barrage of Nazi symbolism at work, while intended for storytelling purposes, can cause an unfortunate familiarity with Nazism. Obviously that’s a problem, and the cast is hyperaware of it. In a recent set visit, we talked to three Man In The High Castle stars-Chelah Horsdal, Rufus Sewell, and Bella Heathcote-about becoming familiar with Nazi imagery and resisting immunity to it.

[@officersbell]

I'm more concerned with the fact that I had no idea Rufus was british this entire time.

[@Oliver_Saer]

I know right, I'm British and even I didn't catch on.

[@n.trstenjak2499]

yeah, I was super shocked myself

[@aussiegod4269]

Ehh I knew only because I’d seen in him in John Adams.

[@UnluckyCantaloupe4]

Damn

[@dl_supertroll]

Same

[@enclavesoldier6555]

Never expected this much fragility and sensitivity from them honestly

[@truekaliban4674]

They're Hollywood snowflakes. They have to toe the PC-BS or they won't get work.

[@andrewzhu5394]

sthu

[@Based_Proletariat]

Nazi illogic

[@matthewsfallout3252]

Tbh the uniforms are hella good looking 😂

[@Lucifurian66x]

Yeah i was always jealous of hugo boss design of the ss uniform. Not jealous of the ss obviously. Just how the uniformed worked. Especially the trench coats and leather jackets as part of the uniform

[@salttrooper573]

Yeah... fascists always steal the coolest shit for themselfs 😂

[@urubissoldat5452]

@@Lucifurian66x HB didn't design the uniforms they only manufactured them

[@Pompa.1738]

Fax

[@Future183]

@@salttrooper573 the uniform style isnt stolen but okay

[@danielc1792]

The more you hype them up, the more powerful they become. The best revenge isn't fear or loathing: it is indifference.

[@graffititrickshotoog6191]

3:05 I thought she was gonna say it makes me proud to be German lol.

[@user-tc9wd4gu1k]

My mother spent her early childhood in a camp, and under nazi control. I’ve never been able to understand the attraction to nazi memorabilia. It makes my skin crawl.

[@moe5020]

People need to grow up, making a big deal about nazi imagery when in reality in a couple generations no one will care. The Romans had galley slaves and watched slaves being slaughtered for sport but you don't see anyone crying about the Aquila symbol being normalised in movies.

[@johndunbar1678]

They don't have any problem taking the money that it makes for them do they!?!

[@slightofhand1961]

Are you drawing parallels between the fighting pits of Rome and Nazi ovens?

[@krixxset2214]

The communist hammer and cycle is used all the time, people wave flags with it on them shamelessly and the ideology that symbol represents and the history associated have directly lead the murder of close to 100 million people.. Oppression, torcher, descrimination of every kind slavery, cultural erasure, racism, colonialism, war, dictatorship and just outright pure evil have taken place because of what that communist hammer and cycle represent and because these things happened under that symbol the ones committing those acts felt justified. No one ever says a damn thing about that though do they? Half of these hollywood morons even claim to support communism, they think dawning the symbols or displaying the faces of communist dictators is cool.. Objectively speaking the nazi's did far less evil compared to all the atrocities committed by communism and its followers.. Pointing out the double standard is even considered "racist" or some other bullshit... Truth is that the people who decide what does on screen and thus what the societal values are not bothered by the impact of communism because it was similar people to themselves who developed the ideology and implemented it in Russia... Its those same group of people who now push the western world ever closer to their long term goal of a global form of this system with them ruling it.. Communism was never about the worker.. It was a system designed specifically to empower a small ruling class over a totally servile mass slave class. You can call me whatever you want and then go back to trying to ignore the fact this reality edges ever closer each day or you can decide to take it seriously and perhaps begin to do some private research on your own in order to learn the truth for yourself.. Realise that what is offered up to the mainstream as information might in fact have an agenda behind it.. Begin to realise that the very real possibility is that you have been lied to by the institutions and public figures you never suspected or could even imagine would ever do such a thing.. We all have been lied too.. Don't willingly choose to remain a participant in these false visions of the world.. Face the truth with courage and take back your freedom, do the research!

[@awddfg]

@@slightofhand1961 *_Still forced to die._*

[@beardedbros7215]

Yes but the Roman society largely died out about 1000 years ago. The Nazi German State only died out around 80 years ago. Many sympathizers and survivors from those times still live.

[@johnathanheath6480]

The series is so well done. after I finish the series .I watched a lot of World War 2 movies and documentaries just to remind myself that that is not the reality I live in , the series is well done

[@bensonfang1868]

the swastika means 10,000 in chinese and a buddhist symbol. just think of it as such

[@mud213]

It's like saying "faggot" just means a bundle of sticks, or the"n-word" just comes from Spanish/French to describe a black-skinned person. This symbol has had a lot of historical uses but that's not often what people associate with it (or one it for) in modern context. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika?wprov=sfla1

[@zenpai5998]

Dude it went from being what you said to now a hate symbol. We cannot use the swastika in any means

[@GogocraftFR]

That's wrong. 10000 is 万、just like in Japanese. It's just the same prononciation (man) The symbol is indeed a religious symbol however.

[@sd7335]

@@zenpai5998 it's a symbol. throw out your che guevara and red 5 star shirt while at it

[@zenpai5998]

@@sd7335 I’m literally a descendant of Holy Roman Empire nobility. We don’t recognise the Third Reich and I would prefer it if you fucked off now.

[@longshotradio4395]

The Nazi uniforms are badass though

[@LaplacianDalembertian]

It is not symbols should have the power over people, but people should have power over symbols. It is not people should fear their governments, but governments should fear of their people.

[@tywinlannister8015]

Spoken like Lenin himself.

[@tywinlannister8015]

@EDGE I have zero clue why I wrote that. Must have been drunk - Lenin was a fraud after all.

[@tywinlannister8015]

​@EDGE Good then. Come to think I probably of it perhaps I meant it sarcastically. I do have a tendency to say stuff like that. But without context it comes across just as plain odd XD

[@rocksjoshua]

Say what you want about the Nazi's but one thing for sure is they knew how to dress. Those uniforms are nice asf, still represent evil, but they look good.

[@johnshowinc]

Yeah that's because they were made by Hugo Boss

[@thepriestpucci4988]

Everyone says that and yes the uniforms do look cool

[@RingoYote]

the Nazi party hired a fashion designer Hugo Boss to design them,

[@grantrichardet6250]

Sam Hyena yea the commies didn’t think of that though

[@BrumEldar]

You lost your like on the stupid evil part

[@redpillforreal3053]

These actors don’t realize they were brainwashed to begin with

[@ArnoldTohtFan]

Tell me about it. I can't stand all these sanctimonious Hollywood virtue-signallers.

[@joshadams7788]

PREACH@@ArnoldTohtFan

[@Awakeningspirit20]

Honestly I think pretty much all symbols and flags are really cool. In the Midwest they often put on WWII reenactments because the terrain is very similar and the PEOPLE are very similar, lots of Germans to play both sides honestly. I was shocked but amazed to see reenactment clothing for sale and tried on an SS jacket, me the person who has mild Asperger's and likely some Jewish blood, and took a selfie in it... then went and bought a communist hat. It's history, to me, and its fascinating. I'm only offended when its weaponized in public as a symbol of extermination and hate by modern hate groups, its then that it takes up that connotation anew.

[@jamesthomas5109]

Lol, maybe they should get rid of communist and anarchist imagery too.

[@NotUnymous]

You should've payed more attention in history class If you realy compare communism and anarchy with the 3. Reich 🤦‍♂️

[@NotUnymous]

@@jamesthomas5109 speaking of morons, good thing I'm a german and had politcal history in my university... But yes, seems like your class lacked quite a bit.

[@jamesthomas5109]

@@NotUnymous And what? Your country was destroyed and is still under occupation till this very day.

[@NotUnymous]

@@jamesthomas5109 It was, and now it's one of the most powerfull nations in the world again. What has that to do with your lack on history knowledge aka your comparison of the 3. Reich, communism and anarchists? 🤨 Occupation... Hahaha. Sure buddy.

[@jamesthomas5109]

@@NotUnymous Correction, it still is.

[@Augustus_Imperator]

The problem is not the iconography, the problem it's the ideology, and what has been done in the name of it. The iconography it's not the ideology itself. As Bella heathcote pointed out, to avoid the mistakes and the pitfalls of the past, we have to shed a light on it and understand it, not escape it altogether.

[@sd7335]

you mean taking care of your own people which is now forbidden in the name of race mixing?

[@Augustus_Imperator]

@@sd7335 people can take care of their own without torturing, without committing genocide on others and without causing a war that ended the life of 60 million people. The problem of nazism for the most part was the violence not the racist ideals, even though such ideals are seen as negative today.

[@Vistresian1941]

The problem was the person, not the ideology. Not every form of National Socialism is racially obsessed or inclined to pointless violence.

[@TheSatiricalGamer]

@@Vistresian1941 Pretty sure there's two different types of national socialism

[@tankieflanker4119]

Yeah, however the iconography represents said ideology.

[@HeroOfTime303]

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[@chasenorton6223]

These people are pretending way to hard

[@HeroOfTime303]

My comments keep getting deleted...hmmmmm

[@saannddii1984]

who didnt try....dont understand..... its not that bad

[@tiffles3890]

FFS, what's there to "resist"? If you're not that kind of person, then you don't turn all evil and shiz just because they showed you too many Hakencreuzes, lmao. If anything, I instinctively find people who go out of their way to show how "kosher" (yes, I get the irony of using that word here, lmao) they are, to be suspicious. It's like they're anxious to prove to somebody else how goodly they are, like how people who have something to hide, do.

[@springheeljak145]

What they know, they don't tell anyone. It's not good for a career in hollywood

[@WheelsRCool]

So they did nazi the symbols anymore.

[@krixxset2214]

That Symbol is an ancient indo-European cultural/religious symbol. It shouldnt be cast out as its destructive to European history and culture...

[@NotUnymous]

The Swastika by far overpower it's other symbolic usage - noone will see a swastika and think: oh, some chinese want to express the number 10k... 🤦‍♂️

[@Lucifurian66x]

The swastika in Buddhism faces to the left. While the nazis faced it right and tilted it on an axis. Same as they did with the roman eagle, they made the head face right to show strength and boldness.

[@joelGi]

It's not even European they(you know who) just wanted to be superior and claim some great civilization they never had.

[@NotUnymous]

@@joelGi Raptiloids!

[@user-pf3hd3db6l]

@@NotUnymous oh u should visit India , we have swastikas in our homes ,temples literally everywhere. It has nothing to do with NAZI ofcourse and it's not tilted .

[@AarenJable]

Why....why did i read the comments....

[@sebastienvoneldritch7245]

too many nazis, looks like we're gonna need to start killing these nazis again

[@HeroOfTime303]

@@sebastienvoneldritch7245 lmao that's laughable.

[@Christendom88]

By "resisting the imagery" they really mean "being persuaded by an ideology that was right, but we've been conditioned for generations to think is abhorrently wrong."

[@ArnoldTohtFan]

My dude, these actors are all woke pricks. You can't expect them to appreciate the awesomeness of fascist aesthetics.

[@matro2]

This video is like a commissar checking their political leanings.

[@georgeheld1901]

Didn’t let them get into their roles smh

[@agentice7718]

I did not know this dude is British

[@Drace90]

I really don't think I could do their job.

[@genewhite9408]

I don't think you have a job.

[@ryanholder7728]

Bruh the ratio

[@Merluso0822]

Weak

[@HeroOfTime303]

Google the haavara agreement

[@truekaliban4674]

This is simply a matter of brain function. A new stimulus is encountered. The brain notices it, processes it, files or discards it and moves on. If you've ever used a strong chemical, such as acetone, you'll remember that you stop noticing the odor, after a few minutes. This is called "nose blindness." If everything a person encountered kept its' initial level of impact,the brain would eventually lock up. It'd be like having millions of windows open on a screen.

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

Everyone just needs to stop being afraid of symbols. Lets start using swastikas to symbolize cuteness or something, and stop associating it with Nazis. If we never recover, then the Nazis have really won.

[@marshmallowbudgie]

well, you have to make sure you didzi it coming

[@Lucifurian66x]

You were so close there bud

[@robinpage2730]

One wonders how the prop makers felt ginning up all the items with Nazi symbols on them, the seig rune rings, the medals, etc.

[@IsengardMordor]

This is just so dramatic and exaggerated...İts just a role they played and not reality itself for f... sake...

[@illegalaryan8400]

“The more you see it, just like with daily horrors, the more normal it becomes.” Kind of like the rainbow flag flying everywhere.

[@Ugapiku]

Not sure if I should like this comment or not xDDD

[@chriss1911]

@@Ugapiku YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE THE COMMENT, BUT ACCEPT A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW.

[@awddfg]

*_And the flag of Israel._*

[@imperiumgrim4717]

LOL

[@chrisharwood5448]

@@awddfg moron.

[@DarkSolace33]

Lol

[@sweetballs4742]

Bloody hell! Aren't you suppose to handle that problem of your Empire in your world than making a comment here in youtube ffs? xD

[@aussiegod4269]

Honestly, it’s a big deal for some but the majority aren’t too concerned

[@DudesWithACamera]

You act for a living maybe do your job

[@mardukgilgamesh1500]

What a bunch of spoiled babies XD

[@kamrynsmart9151]

I am the 15,000th view

[@luciuslucianski4778]

Now u don't need to work until rest of your life pal,well done

[@jonathanbreauxpalski1817]

kvetch more

[@Fackeldackel]

Watching the show with all it's details is scary. Very scary, even depressing. I think that especially the actor of Joe Smith is doing a very difficult but excellent job. You know he is the bad guy, but on the other hand sometimes you can empathize with him. The entire show is a monumental testimony to how lucky the world was that Hitler stopped the german nuclear bomb program and the US got the bomb first. Thx Einstein! I wouldn't want to live in a world as it is pictured in this show (and very realisticaly done btw). Greeting from germany and salute to the allied and russian soldiers who prevented this vision from becoming reality.

[@a.mullen590]

John smith is bad a** because he knows every thing i havent watched the entire show but its a good show all to gether

[@Fackeldackel]

I had to force myself through the first couple of episodes, but in the second half of season 1 the show starts taking off. And even after the third season i am still not sure if John is a villain. Scary AF, but istill think he could be redeemed and be a keyfigure to defeat the Nazis. Realy awesome acting!

[@gardist]

I think you overestimate the role the nuclear bomb played in WW2. Even if Germany had gotten the bomb first, this wouldn't have changed anything because the eastern front was collapsing since 1943 and the allies were bombing german industry as well. America got its bombs in mid 1945 without having to deal with all of that so Germany would take even longer to create a bomb and even if it did, it couldn't be used because the german airforce was heavily outnumbered which makes dropping the bomb impossible

[@matthewyoung9828]

PerAsperaAdAstra this history is where the nazi did not lose Africa and beat the Soviet Union and American Dident enter till a lot later

[@gardist]

@@matthewyoung9828 I wasn't talking about the alternative history but about the real history

[@Vistresian1941]

Any more of a bleeding heart and these people are going to need to see a doctor immediately.

[@AlmightyFilms]

This show is so fucked up. Just started getting into it...

[@documentationslave397]

Emotional response lmao... the normalization shit is cringe. Literally Judaism.

[@sawyermiller8739]

tf is up with all the Nazi's in the comments?

[@HeroOfTime303]

I wonder why National Socialists appear under a video topic like this......hmmmmm.

[@sawyermiller8739]

@@HeroOfTime303 true though, bunch of fuckin psychopaths

[@HeroOfTime303]

@@sawyermiller8739 Meine Treue ist meine Ehre

[@salttrooper573]

The show makes them horny. Not bc of it's themes or story... just cos it got nazi stuff in it. And where there is nazi stuff there are nazis no matter the context. It's like vermin in a sewer. Where there is shit and rotting food, there are always rats

[@katrita1146]

@@salttrooper573 not any worse than commies.

[@jordanhess2061]

Too bad it isn't the real universe

[@SlickAndroid17]

Oh boo hoo