Posted on 11/24/2023 2:56:01 PM PST by thegagline
Released in 1973,
I liked this one. Many of the principal leaders were still alive at the time (Karl Doenitz, Albert Speer, Omar Bradley) and enjoyed hearing their points of view on the War.
Show s a picture of the USS New Jersey on the cover
I came across a youtube channel where a guy (probably AI) reads from diaries of both German and allied forces. Very interesting. And I can listen to it while I’m doing other stuff as there is no video.
Below is an hour from a captured German and him being sent to a camp in the USA. “When I landed in America I knew that Germany would lose the war...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hLd1qjiPME
Hillsdale College series the Second World Wars by victor Davis Hanson is superb. It takes everything I know about WWII and just twists it a bit to make perfect sense of it all.
Ditto
you know we just dated ourselves... right? 8^)
Another vote for Victory at Sea ... fantastic documentary with great music.
Don’t care……
…..I was just a kid but I liked them…….watched them with my dad.
…always thought the submarine coming out of the water was a whale
me neither, right? emergency blow...
Second Victory at Sea. Love the musical score and the narration. Purely pro-America.
Ditto. I had just moved to Hawaii, as my dad was stationed there, so I had just begun to learn about Pearl Harbor, and visited the Arizona Memorial for the first time.
“Victory at Sea,” a great series.
Many years ago I flew with a former Navy pilot and, on a layover, he said, “we aren’t going out for a beer until we watch “Victory at Sea, my treat”
So, I, an Air Force guy, had to “endure” an episode. for a beer. LOL
My Daughter was working in Munich, Germany as an intern with a Federal Reserve bank.
I went to Munich to visit her and, because she was working, I visited the great museum there.
Later, she told me that her German friends asked her, “Why did the Americans and Allies drop so many bombs on Munich?”
She did not have an answer and asked me the same question.
My reply, thinking about what I had recently seen, was, “tell them to visit the “Deutsch Museum” and see the Vi and v2 rockets, terrorist weapons fired at London!” They are displayed in a corner for all to see.
End of story.
PS. On a later visit to the Deutsch Museum, (2018) .they had a great “computer exhibit.”
Proudly displayed was the “Enigma,” the code machine that was used for command and control of all Nazi forces. Something like 5,000 Enigmas deployed.
The exhibits that the Germans are most proud of is their Engineering, building of Railroads, Bridges andTunnels and highways, truly to be proud of.
History is brutal, especially for the brutes.
I just recently got “BBC History of WWII”.It’s 12 DVDs and it’s truly outstanding.
Best WWII movies IMO were “Flags of our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima”. Both were shot at the same time, shared some of the same footage, and were directed by Clint Eastwood. Both were about Iwo Jima, the former from the perspective of US Marines and the latter from the perspective of a Japanese conscript. Very compelling.
The Enigma was so far ahead of its time that it took the best brainpower of both the UK and Canada to even play catch-up with it.
History Television (Canada) aired a series called “Air Power” that was hosted and narrated by Walter Cronkite. The final episode was about the Berlin Airlift.
Those were good, but there is also:
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
12 o’clock High
A Walk In The Sun
The Big Red One
Narvik
The Bombardment
Das Boot
The Forgotten Battle
Strip out the soap-opera parts, and The Winds of War/War And Remembrance was very well done. Especially the scenes about The Holocaust.
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