What have you been watching?

What did you think of Come and See, Kai? I've been wanting to see that one for a while.

 

I have been watching a series on TV here in the UK called (The War of the World) about the 20th century history. The presenter who is also a professor concluded that the only winner of WW2 was Russia, I would like to point out he is making a study of the west and east, so it's a deep subject matter. Anyone else in the U.K. has been watching this one?

 

Watched when I could Pike, sorry Richard . Haven't seen the whole thing and must catch-up with the re-runs. Very enjoyable and nice to see many points mentioned which usually are overlooked for the thumbnail classics.

No.9

 

No.9, the series is well worth watching when they repeat it.

 

Col hessler,

did not notice your question earlier, sorry about that.

The movie lasts some 2hrs 20 mins. The first hour is a bit dream-like symbolism but the second hour describes how a village was destroyed and the people burnt inside the local church. Overall I think they got the right perspective and actually it is not too much the usual anti-nazi stuff but showing how awful it all was in its "purest self".
The film was done in 1985 so I´m even more surprised that it´s so documentary-like. This was how it probably happened...singing, dancing, drinking alcohol, killing people...

 

Watched Stalingrad again.

 

I re-watched that a couple weeks ago as well.

 

Frontline Inside the Camps

This set of documentaries inside German camps. No comments really needed

 

On June 17th 1943, President Roosevelt wrote to Prime Minister Churchill; “I am fed up with de Gaulle, there is no possibility of working with him. We must divorce ourselves from de Gaulle because he has proven unreliable, uncooperative and disloyal to both our governments.”

http://www.mpihomevideo.com/?p=25467&pid=1481&pcid=&ccid=

"Allies at war" a very interesting 2 hour documentary on FDR, Churchill and de Gaulle. It seems they fought more against each other than Hitler....

 

Watched The Downfall again last night, this time on T.V.

Fascinating film, great performance by Bruno Ganz as Hitler.

Some memorable Quotes from the film........

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler: When I meet Eisenhower, should I give the Nazi salute, or shake his hand?

Joseph Goebbels: I feel no sympathy. I repeat, I feel no sympathy! The German people chose their fate. That may surprise some people. Don't fool yourself. We didn't force the German people. They gave us a mandate, and now their little throats are being cut!

Adolf Hitler: In a war as such there are no civilians.

Adolf Hitler: General Von Greim, I appoint you supreme commander of the Luftwaffe. I hereby promote you to General-Fieldmarshall. A big responsibility rests on your shoulders. You have to rebuild the Luftwaffe from scratch. Many mistakes have been made. Be ruthless. Life doesn't forgive weakness. This so-called humanity is religious drivel. Compassion is an eternal sin. To feel compassion for the weak is a betrayal of nature. The strong can only triumph if the weak are exterminated. Being loyal to this law, I've never had compassion. I've always been ruthless when faced with internal opposition from other races. That's the only way to deal with it.

 

The Longest Day, over the weekend.

 

yes, pretty good movie! I would have to say that my favorite U.S. WW2 moviea would be Saving Private Ryan and then Patton.

 

yea, that was a good movie, i watched it as well

 

AMC had To Hell and Back on as well. Man, I love that movie.

 

thats a good movie...

 

I couldn't help but laugh at the fact that Audie's field uniform in the movie always looked like it had just been pressed. What a guy though. Anyone ever read his book by the same title as the movie?

 

I dug up some of my old tapes and watched America’s war in colour again, very interesting watching WW2 rare footage in colour.

 

I've watched Der Untergang about 5 times this summer.
There was a scene where an old civilian man was running with a helmet on his head. "Volkstrum" sounds cool when you hear the word, but definetly is not when you see it.
Der Untergang is in my opinion is a masterpiece.
It is in the 42nd place in imdb top 250.
IMDB Top 250

 

Next weekend a document on Caen battles and after that some humour:



Excellent! It´s been a while since I last saw it...