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Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told

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11 sources, but every single one of them is a passing mention, all one or two sentences. No source contains WP:SIGCOV. It does not pass the WP:GNG. PARAKANYAA (talk) 12:58, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Film and Discrimination. PARAKANYAA (talk) 12:58, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
• Delete: per nom. StartOkayStop (talk) 01:53, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

Leaning keep at the moment, it seems to be an important topic in academic work on extremism / is a topic of interest in that field enough that it might merit an article on those grounds. I found some sources/reports that aren't included in the current article. see for example:

• https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/downloads/Nazis%20v.%20ISIS.pdf
  • Specifically on page 12: A six-and-a-half-hour video titled “Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told” was the most tweeted relevant content in the white nationalist dataset. Spikes in the creation of Nazi accounts began shortly after the video was uploaded to YouTube in a series of short installments starting in 2013, which were later combined into a single video. Limitations on data collection and analysis within the scope of this study made it difficult to fully assess the video’s impact on recruitment, except in noting its prominence. The video itself is not especially exciting or groundbreaking, relying heavily on archival footage and imagery. The presentation imitates the format of cable television documentaries such as those presented on The History Channel, but with a significant pro-Nazi revisionist spin.
• That report above was also mentioned in this UN report: https://web.archive.org/web/20250512112805/https://promiseinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/N1825267.pdf see paragraph 9
• It is mentioned as being significant in the radicalization process by this book chapter: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-97-8437-0_5
  • Specifically here (abbreviated quote for copyright reasons that shows the context of how the article subject is discussed): (...) In my research, I have come across many prominent far-right figures who (...) mentioned that they were dissatisfied with what they were taught about the topic at school and started to ‘do their own research’, which led them to sources that conveyed historically false, ideologically driven and conspiratorial narratives about Hitler’s national-socialist fascist regime, the Holocaust and the war. A particularly prominent example is the six-hour and 32-minute-long revisionist pro-Hitler pseudo-documentary ‘Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told’ (2013), which has been mentioned by several far-right neo-Nazi figures as a key source of inspiration and motivation on their pathway into the neo-Nazi milieu.
    And the note that accompanies this paragraph (which is available in full before the paywall so quoted entirely): The documentary is still widely available on the Internet, both in far-right spaces as well as on mainstream sites, where it is often falsely presented as an ordinary or at best ‘controversial’ documentary (see, for example, the movie platform IMDb, where it has received high ratings from viewers and is accompanied by other recommendations with similar ideological tendencies). The German filmportal.de is more critical of the film describing it as ‘historical revisionism’ full of ‘scientifically untenable assertions’ and states that ‘the film serves the narratives of old and new Nazis across the board, who celebrate it accordingly on the internet’.

ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 09:41, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

None of these are sigcov about the film, so it still fails GNG. PARAKANYAA (talk) 15:16, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

I think these and the sources already included are more than trivial mentions and the sources say that this is a "prominent example" of right-wing propaganda online. I'm not arguing that the subject is significant as a film where sigcov would require reviews for example, I'm arguing that its significant as a topic in extremism research. I could also see a merge to Far-right usage of the internet or some other target working. ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 15:31, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

It's better than a sentence but it is still not sigcov; significant in extremism research it is not, mentioned for less than a paragraph each in one book and two grey papers. I don't think it would fit well on that page, there's no section it would fit in. PARAKANYAA (talk) 16:08, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

We could add a YouTube or 'video streaming' subsection to the social media section that could also be expanded with other examples? ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 10:16, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Well, it wasn't on YouTube or video streaming. I guess "film". Still, it's very irrelevant. PARAKANYAA (talk) 17:11, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, 11WB (talk) 22:56, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

• Redirect or Merge to Adolf Hitler in popular culture, but not opposed to deletion. Could pop a small blurb there if there isnt one already. ← Metallurgist (talk) 03:30, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

  To the internet section specifically I assume? Seems like the films section is mostly a list that wouldn't accommodate the necessarily contextualization. ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 07:53, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

  Im not sure that makes sense, but your concerns about film are also valid. ← Metallurgist (talk) 09:34, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

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