Post: #26

Yeah I'd like to watch it again. I remember seeing it on PBS as a kid.

Post: #27

So many great aspects of world at war which is the documentary mentioned a lot produced by the BBC. Everyone should watch it because it features interviews from Nazi German officials and Imperial Japanese who still had first person perspective of the events that transpired.

The opening monologue with scenes from Odeur sur glane are amazing and haunting.

The eastern front section is especially heartbreaking. It's the only western documentary i'm aware of that allows humanization and complexity to the eastern front sacrifice of WW2. The Soviets clearly were the pivotal moment that led to the defeat of nazi germany... Without the soviets it's really doubtful the nazis would have been defeated by the western allies of mostly the U.K. and the U.S.

This Soviet poem still haunts me especially with the footage from World at War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_for_Me_%28poem%29

Quote:Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait with all you've got!
Wait, when dreary yellow rains
Tell you, you should not.
Wait when snow is falling fast,
Wait when summer's hot,
Wait when yesterdays are past,
Others are forgot.
Wait, when from that far-off place,
Letters don't arrive.
Wait, when those with whom you wait
Doubt if I'm alive.

Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait in patience yet
When they tell you off by heart
That you should forget.
Even when my dearest ones
Say that I am lost,
Even when my friends give up,
Sit and count the cost,
Drink a glass of bitter wine
To the fallen friend -
Wait! And do not drink with them!
Wait until the end!

Wait for me and I'll come back,
Dodging every fate!
"What a bit of luck!" they'll say,
Those that would not wait.
They will never understand
How amidst the strife,
By your waiting for me, dear,
You had saved my life.
Only you and I will know

This is why it's such an abomination to me that western europe is in the state that it is. Literally millions of men in western europe died to secure their ancestral lands and they are giving it away to savage arab muslims, north africans, and subcontinent colonials. Just ridiculous.

Post: #28

I find these documentaries slightly harrowing. The veterans interviewed are all dead; I think my generation and older are the first in history to have lived among another generation that is now entirely gone, yet still preserved on film. It's an odd sensation.

My Grandmother (RIP) was born in 1919, lost 6 brothers in the Great War and spent 4 years during the Second knowing very little about her husband other than that he was a POW in a German camp. I grew up hearing, first hand, the stories of that generation; the daily struggles and sacrifices they went through, the spirit and resolve and above all else the intense nationalistic pride that swelled from within them.

What amazing people. I don't care if the films of their lives is made and broadcast for "globalist/leftist/I'm-completely-paranoid" agendas or whatever. I am proud of them. They are sorely missed.

We will never see their likes again.

RIP the British Stiff Upper Lip.
RIP The Great Generation.

Post: #29

(05-19-2016 02:22 PM)CrashBangWallop Wrote:  I find these documentaries slightly harrowing. The veterans interviewed are all dead; I think my generation and older are the first in history to have lived among another generation that is now entirely gone, yet still preserved on film. It's an odd sensation.

My Grandmother (RIP) was born in 1919, lost 6 brothers in the Great War and spent 4 years during the Second knowing very little about her husband other than that he was a POW in a German camp. I grew up hearing, first hand, the stories of that generation; the daily struggles and sacrifices they went through, the spirit and resolve and above all else the intense nationalistic pride that swelled from within them.

What amazing people. I don't care if the films of their lives is made and broadcast for "globalist/leftist/I'm-completely-paranoid" agendas or whatever. I am proud of them. They are sorely missed.

We will never see their likes again.

RIP the British Stiff Upper Lip.
RIP The Great Generation.

Here's a fantastic and harrowing BBC documentary about Harry Patch, one of the last British WW1 veterans to pass away - The last Tommy. This was filmed in 2007 when a handful of them were still alive.