Posted on 10/29/2022 9:22:24 AM PDT by sphinx
That’s why I always say that the US was never “neutral” even before 1917. We knew the Royal Navy blockade of Germany was starving Germany, and putting our ships in peril in getting supplies to Britain, while the Brits wouldn’t allow our ships to supply Germany. A true “neutral” would have told the Brits that unless you also allow our shipping to go to German ports, we wouldn’t risk our ships to send supplies to Britain.
“Commies” in the sense of wanting to overthrow the Bourgeoise cultural norms, but the vast majority did not give a **** about class struggle. They were too individualistic and hedonistic for that.
Thanks. I’ve not heard of it. I just looked it up on IMDB and it looks good. S1 is available on my Prime account. Looking for something new to watch and this looks like it.
Related —> I just finished the “1883” miniseries on Paramount (signed up for a one-week free trial to see it). I enjoyed it and it was a real eye-opener about life on the westward trail and many parts were realistic, but overall it overlaid WAY too much 2022 wokeism onto the lives of people on the overland trail. It wasn’t hugely overt wokesim, but so many things were just too preposterous to be true in 1883. I’d probably rate it a 5/10 with the positives being gritty reality and gorgeous cinematography with the negatives being the wokeism. I’m sure life in frontier towns and on the plains was brutal, but this series seemed to make it overly and gratuitously so.
You mock yourself.
Paths of Glory.
Great film.
Joseph Persico has written a very interesting book about that entitled Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour. Those final days of the war were disorienting to the point of being surreal. Highly recommended.
Thanks for posting the link.
Germans know better than than anyone that between 1914-1945 they lost forever their best genetic stock. Wise Germans realize that it was their inherent nature and cultural disposition that was at the core of this catastrophe. Therefore it is not surprising that the Germans themselves cannot easily look in the mirror and make a movie such as “All Quiet on the Western Front” or correctly analyze almost any of the events of the 20th century. Simply evokes too much guilt and pain.
Germans know better than than anyone that between 1914-1945 they lost forever their best genetic stock. Wise Germans realize that it was their inherent nature and cultural disposition that was at the core of this catastrophe. Therefore it is not surprising that the Germans themselves cannot easily look in the mirror and make a movie such as “All Quiet on the Western Front” or correctly analyze almost any of the events of the 20th century. Simply evokes too much guilt and pain.
Germans know better than than anyone that between 1914-1945 they lost forever their best genetic stock. Wise Germans realize that it was their inherent nature and cultural disposition that was at the core of this catastrophe. Therefore it is not surprising that the Germans themselves cannot easily look in the mirror and make a movie such as “All Quiet on the Western Front” or correctly analyze almost any of the events of the 20th century. Simply evokes too much guilt and pain.
The original 1930 version is fantastic, so watch that one first.
Paths of Glory and Full Metal Jacket by Kubrick... Two other great war films that really pack a punch and leave you enlightened.
It’s a lack of historical perspective to claim Germans are more war-like then anyone else on the continent of Europe. Go back 200-400 years and the military big dog in Europe were the Spanish and the French - See 30-Years War! Germany then was nothing more than a place your army passed through, it might pause to besiege, pillage, burn down & massacre a local German speaking city. In fact, the rise of Prussian later German Militarism is directly attributable to the destruction and population loss that European geographic area called Germany experienced. The people living there kind of said to themselves ‘never again’, next time we’ll be the ones handing out the beatings and atrocities. The Swiss during the Renaissance were the mercenary army of choice for the up-and-coming military commander. Known for their ferocity and loyalty if the bags of gold arrived on time. Again 30-Years War Era to early 1700s, the Swedes were always happy to give you a sound beating, just ask Peter the Great! Of course, you can keep pulling back the pages of history and find other Europeans, Asians, Central Asians, Middle Easterners, etc. as war-like an as atrocity prone as any in the modern period. Mongols didn’t build towers of skulls as an art project!
In short, it’s not German nature its human nature.
France didn’t like having a new kid on the block, when Germany unified in 1871.
I loved the original...and the Book too.
Agree!
I think the French share more blame for WWI then Imperial Germany. They were itching for another go at Germany.
By coincidence, just last night I finished Zane Grey’s 1922 novel The Day of the Beast, which deals with some of the societal changes in America during and after WWI. Kind of melodramatic, but interesting.
The Lost Battalion was very realistic and historic.
My grandfather was in the trenches in France for months. He left the infantry and volunteered for the signal corps because they needed pilots. He trained in the same plane he flew and survived three plane crashes. Still safer than being in the trenches.
Maybe the world would have been better off if France was broken up, after Napoleon.
But on the other side, Germany wanted war with Russia in 1914, because with Russia quickly modernizing, it was a case of ‘now or never’.
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