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Yes and I would agree. This did come out as very pro-mother russia.
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Just watched a couple of old documents from 1975, the Secret War: "the battle of the beams" and "To see for a hundred miles".
Both were very interesting with people interviewed who were making the miracles back in WW2 and how they did it.
Especially I was surprised by the simplicity and possible effect of the knickebein system. If it had not been figured out how much destruction could the Luftwaffe had caused really...or could it?
Also a time-lapse film found in Peenemünde was quite startling showing a time -lapse film of a Berlin radar of a bombing raid Jan 1944. After seeing the film the voice said " You just witnessed the shooting down of 33 bombers..."
The Berlin radar was called something like "Jankschloss" (??)...
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Was that the series with William Woollard from tv's Tomorrow's World, Kai? Think I remember seeing it first time round (  ). The radar screen footage was incredible. |
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Hi Kai-Petri yes the Secret War is a great series I bought it years ago and still watch it today a well made series if you get the opportunity to buy it well worth doing so there is also a book to go with the series. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Yes, Gordon, thatīs the one! Many programs tend to think people know alot to start with but here they tell you everything from the beginning which is quite nice especially with the beams and radar stuff...
Nice to hear Richard42 that you enjoyed the series as well.
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The Secret War open my eyes up to what was going on in the back rooms the Wizard war a very enjoyable series and well constructed as well I think the BBC should repeat this classic series
[ 18. January 2006, 03:32 PM: Message edited by: Richard42 ]
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Just watched a document on resistance on Crete 1941-1945. Incredible. Even how cruel you are the people still continue the resistance...
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Back to the the Secret War: "the battle of the beams":
You donīt always need the newest equipment to deal with the threat. for instance Knickebein:
Countermeasures to jam the beams were soon developed, at first employing jury-rigged diathermy machines borrowed from local hospitals .
http://home.earthlink.net/~nbrass1/2enigma.htm
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thats a good series all should watch
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February 21st, 2006, 03:59 PM
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A couple of DVDīs coming my way:
Classic British Jets: Meteor-- The Ultimate Profiles
FlightInto Death - The Sinking of the Freighter Goya
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Goya, was that the first ship sunk by Germany's first guided bomb?
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PzJgr:
No that was sunk by the Soviets in 1945, the liner was carrying quite a bit of passengers~civilians and the Soviets had been warned secretly that many ships of all classes were going to try and make their way westward from the Baltic to Denmark. simply put the Goya was a ripe plum with no protection and was easily sunk: 5230 brt's, 5000 Tote, sunk on 16.4.45
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Watched Crash Dive with Tyrone Power & Dana Andrews this afternoon. A typical wartime flag-waver, but still a good movie. Almost made up for the BBC only showing They Were Expendable in England last Saturday.
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Some Panther action later tonight....
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that looks good.... can you elaborate?
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March 17th, 2006, 02:33 PM
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The Grey Zone (2001)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252480/
Actually about the "famous" revolt in the camp in 1944.
http://holocaust-info.dk/auschwitz/intro.htm
In October 1944 members of the Jewish forced workers in Krema IV, the Sonderkommando, intiates a desperate revolt in which the Krema is set on fire, and about 30 SS-men are killed, including the leader of the Krema, August Brück, who is thrown into one of of the furnaces. The revolt is quickly beaten down, and all the Sonderkommando's killed.
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OK movie with Harvey Keitel as SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt. The "funniest" part was when they threw the SS-guard into the oven alive...
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Britain's Channel Four is set to excel itself with WW2 movies this week. On Tuesday, they're showing Went The Day Well? (my favourite), on Thursday it's Odette, and then on Friday Sea of Sand.
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Band of Brothers. Fantastic mini-series.
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I am going to watch Cross of Iron this weekend granted its war fiction its a darn good film.
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Watched Back to Bataan on BBC2 this afternoon. Still a classic.
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The Military Channel had a program on the Fall of France.
Some footage I've never seen before,a French tank being turned over by a Stuka's bomb. Looked real enough.
Can't imagine the photographer being that close,though.
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