re: Best WWII documentary on netflix?

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1990s or later.

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Glantz says in he newest revision of his book When Titans Clashed that more than half of what we know for sure about the Eastern Front has come to light since 1995. That really underscores the necessity of updating everything that we learned about WW2 before then.

For example, arguably the biggest secret of WW2 was the Ultra Secret about cracking the Enigma code. The general public first learned of this in 1973. This is the same year that the World at War documentary was completed, so, obviously, many of the participants in making WaW had no idea about Ultra/Enigma. That's a fairly significant flaw in WaW -- a flaw that's not its fault. Was the Ultra/Enigma secret mentioned at all in WaW? If not, then, I would argue that NONE of the people involved in making the documentary had any knowledge of Ultra/Enigma.

It is tough to gain a full understanding of that very complex and long period of history from the popular history sources, the film documentaries and the movies. That's the challenge that every good citizen who wants to be informed faces.

Haven't you and I spent our whole lives studying WW2? We and a bunch of other people, too.