[joesbucks]

There’s only so many ways you can portray Hitler and WWII.

[rmlew]

There’s only so many ways you can portray Hitler and WWII.
Because there was only 1 war in four millenia of recorded history. It is the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 (declared by idiot Democrat-Republicans on 6/1/12) the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and we are around the corner from the 100th anniversary of the Great War. It is the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China. Should I continue, or do you get the point?

This is not about a lack of material, but about the sloth and intellectual incuriousness of the American people, and the contempt advertisers have for history and America in a global marketplace. Then again, perhaps we are lucky. Most new history on the "History Channel" is absolute dreck. "The Color of War" and "World War 2 in HD" were full of anachronism and errors and put visuals above fact. They also placed greater import on interviews of privates on resperators over what actually happened on the ground. Crappy, crappy, history. The equivalent of a sixth-graders report on WW2 talking about grandpa instead of the assignment.*

*I am not disrespecting vets. I admire those who served and the sacrifices of those on the homefront. But sociology is not history and "perspectives" is socialist garbage. I do think that kids would do well to learn the stories, but not every story matters. My mother is trying to get my father's story published, but the truth is that it pales in comparison to that of his father. However, my grandfather has been dead 36 years, so the point is moot.

[Publius6961]

There’s only so many ways you can portray Hitler and WWII.

There's more to WWx than Hitler, Mussolini and Obama...

Just today I watched Great Tank Battles for the first useful depiction of the 1983 Tom Kippur war; even that was woefully inadequate. Had I not recently read The Eve of Destruction, I might still not know about the 80% of the events of that war that were left out.