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Old July 18th, 2003, 09:21 PM
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A film based on William L. Shirer experiences during 1933-1940 while he was working as a journalist in Germany.

I think it was quite good if we talk about the film pointing out his story.

But I just hated that they very badly coloured the black and white films they used. [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]

And there were several minor inaccuracies I could notice:

-William Shirer is talking to general Von Fritsch, commander in chief of the Army (they said Armed Forces, there was not such a thing back then) during Nuremberg's Party Rally in 1934. He was wearing a Pour le Mérite (which he was never awarded) and his epoulettes were a Generalmajor's...

-William Shirer is interviewed by Hermann Göring, which I have to say was IDENTICAL to the real one. Excellent in that point. However, Göring was wearing Generalmajor epoulettes as well as a Knight's Cross with Oakleaves... Göring never received such award and even if he had, he wouldn't have received it in 1937...

But I do recommend this film.
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Thanks Fried--I haven't heard of this one and will have to see if I can find anything on it in the IMDB.
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I have not heard of this movie either. Is it a German movie or is it in English?

I watched "The Pianist", last week and it was fairly good for a WWII related movie. I don't know how accurate it was as I am not too up on the events in Warsaw during WWII. It sort of made it look like the non-Jewish Poles had it good during the occupition, which I don't think was true.
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