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Watch "Europa: The Last Battle" This Documentary Changed And Shocked My Whole Life is a catchphrase and spam comment popularized on TikTok suggesting that viewers watch the anti-semitic conspiracy theory documentary Europa: The Last Battle to have their "lives changed." Videos using the phrase became popularized on TikTok in January 2023, inspiring backlash from some after they learned about the subject matter of the controversial documentary.

Origin

Europa: The Last Battle

Europa: The Last Battle is a 2017 documentary by director Tobias B. that, in part, offers a pro-Nazi view of the events surrounding World War 2 "that you were never taught in history class."^[1] The documentary's "storyline" section on IMDB reads:

Internal sabotage at the end of World War 1 has devastated Germany, and its new Weimar government is riddled with corrupt men plundering what is left, all while overseeing the destruction of German culture and its social order. After it all collapses, one man manages to turn it all around in just a few short years. When Germany's people begin to prosper and start to live happily, the enemy declares war and seeks to destroy the German people once and for all. The true events surrounding World War 2 that you were never taught in history class, read about in your school's history books, saw on your television, or ever stumbled upon in a social media feed. And yet, it all happened. Scrubbed from the historical record and lost.. until now. And if you try to mention it to anyone, you'll be immediately silenced or thrown in prison.

The documentary's website^[2] includes several sections discussing Jewish people in a negative light and suggesting they have ultimate control and influence over the government and media, including multiple references to "the Jewish question."^[3] The website's section "On the Jews"^[4] reads in part:

So what is “the Jewish Question”? Simply and pragmatically it should be, are Jews of benefit or detriment to their host society? If ‘History is philosophy teaching by examples’, host nations across time and space have answered this question the same way – Jews have been ejected from every place they’ve ever dwelt (yet “everyone else is the problem, goy”).

Later on in the section, the author writes, "The answer is Parasitism; Jewry are the World Parasite. They parasitise the host societies they infest and have done so for a long time – perhaps so long that the parasitism has become innate." The website also includes an Archive.org^[5] link to view the full documentary for free. A trailer is available on YouTube,^[6] but is age restricted.

TikTok Presence

In January 2023, TikTokers started posting videos using the caption, "Watch 'Europa: The Last Battle' this documentary changed and shocked my whole life" in an effort to spread the documentary, some offering links to the film's website in their bios. It is unclear who started this, but some of the earliest videos were uploaded on January 27th, 2023, by TikTokers^[7][8] @elnarvu and @nasi_rome, garnering over 6,500 and 11,000 views, respectively, in four days (shown below, left and right).

Spread

The spam comment spread across TikTok over the course of January 2023 in videos encouraging others to watch it, also becoming a short copypasta. The increasing presence of these videos inspired backlash from many. For example, on January 28th, 2023, TikToker^[9] @heyitsresonate posted a video responding to the spam comment, saying that she won't watch it, calling it a conspiracy theory documentary and noting that the person who wrote the comment is named Heinrich, suggesting it's a reference to Heinrich Himmler, garnering over 16,800 views in three days (shown below).

The phrase also saw use on Twitter^[10] that same month. On January 30th, a Redditor then asked the /r/OutOfTheLoop^[11] subreddit about the spam comment.

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