Posted on 02/08/2021 9:17:39 AM PST by The Louiswu
I picked up a full DVD set of World at War, the eleven volume set, narrated by Sir Lawrence Olivier, brings to life a stunning and sometimes shocking account of the time before, during and after World War II.
In this set, the first episode, A New Germany, outlines the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party in what I was stunned to realize is oddly similar to the current rise of the Democrat party and the events of the last four years and the current election.
While watching this video I was slapped in the face time and time again with images and testimony that mirrored with what is happening in our country, right this very minute.
It’s a really great series and in the first episode if the Reichstag fire doesn’t ring a bell, something is wrong.
It’s stunning how the events of then flow with current times...ugly actually.
Soros learned at Hitler’s knee, so to speak. He has said that this was the best time of his life. He lives to fulfill Hitler’s dream.
I have been watching a different series, the WW I Apocolypse shows.
They are very well done, and every five minutes you want to attack the screen and punch out a stupid monarch or even dumber general.
As for Woodrow Wilson—the guy was the worst president the country ever had—though LBJ was awful and Biden may make Wilson look like a patriot in comparison.
WW I was a European family quarrel—sending our boys over there to get maimed and killed was criminal malfeasance.
I tried to order that set last year. They could not find me a copy on DVD anywhere.
I first saw it way back in 1973-1974. Later saw the added episodes from the 1980s.
I did find a copy of THE UNKNOWN WAR, narrated by Burt Lancaster, about Russia’s war with Germany.
The frightful thing is the appalling similarity between the Hindenburg-Hitler succession and the soon to come Biden-Harris succession.
As a kid I watched this series every chance I could. Can still hear the theme song in my mind. And yes, we are living under Paul von Hindenburg right now. Once he is gone the real tyrant will take over.
The local synicated Houston radio show has been talking ‘Weimar Republic’ since the mulatto president!!
If that DVD series slapped your face, how many others just kept eating their dinners on their TV trays?
I remember watching that when I was a child. I can still remember the opening visuals and the theme song. That’s how big an impression it made on me at the time.
Indeed. That was an amazing series as well.
Both Hindenburg and Biden were clowns in their prime—when they got senile it just got worse...
Then why did Kaiser Wilhelm say his goal was to forge “a United States of Europe against America”?
WW I was a European family quarrel …
Tremendous series. I watched it as a young man. Hold on to real history when you find it.
Wilhelm was a senile old goat—he was zero threat to the United States—we were more likely to get hit by a meteor.
Sir Laurence Olivier’s opening words:
Down this road on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours.
When they had gone, the community, which had lived for a thousand years, was dead.
This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France. The day the soldiers came, the people were gathered together. The men were taken to garages and barns, the women and children were led down this road, and they were driven into this church.
Here, they heard the firing as their men were shot. Then they were killed too. A few weeks later, many of those who had done the killing were themselves dead, in battle.
They never rebuilt Oradour. Its ruins are a memorial. Its martyrdom stands for thousands upon thousands of other martyrdoms in Poland, in Russia, in Burma, China, in a World at War...
(Best Documentary Series Ever)
Nothing like underestimating one’s enemies to beat them, yes? Calling them names won’t produce that result either.
One of the best, if not THE best, WWII documentaries ever.
The opening scene of the first episode shows Oradour sur Glane. I visited Oradour in 2012 or 2013. I will never, ever forget it. I’m working on a return trip this year.
Details are in Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II by Jim Powell.
And since their 1976 Party platform favoring abortion, the Demonicrats are complicit in the murders of 60 million infants of the womb. The Demonicrats are truly a party of death and treason.
The Stalingrad Episode was the best IMHO.
I’ll always remember the clicking metronome and the voice saying in German on Radio Moscow...
“Every Seven Seconds a German Soldier Dies in Russia....Stalingrad...Mass Grave!”
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