My feelings on this matter are the same as those expressed by Joe Offer and LEJ above.

I have also met Germans who served in the war, and they've all been decent, normal men who just happened to be there and tried to defend their unit and stay alive. I have some feeling for the young soldiers who suffered and died in ALL the armed forces in that war, and so do they.

As Joe said, "I'm a big boy and not likely to become a Nazi by looking at German military films. Those who already think highly of the Nazis may find inspiration in Nazi films, but I'm not sure that's so horribly dangerous - if they don't watch the films, they'll get inspired somewhere else. If I can't watch the films because they've been censored, then I don't have that opportunity to learn about Nazi propaganda from primary-source materials."

I am very opposed to the values the Nazis promoted in regards to race hatred and supposed "master race" theories, etc. I am totally opposed to Naziism in every way. But I am not opposed to finding out about past history of the Nazis through archival film footage, I find it very interesting, and I am not the least bit threatened or compromised by being able to view Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, and the rest of those scoundrels spewing their propaganda and doing whatever they did at that time, because if I can SEE it, then I know far better the face of my enemy and what to watch for in the present political context which is where the real danger is. If I cannot see it, because someone censcors it, then I have been robbed of the opportunity to know the history of what happened by my own direct obesrvation, and that would just be stupid.

You do not protect people by keeping them selectively ignorant of what occurred in the past. You may control them that way...through ignorance...but you certainly don't protect them.