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re: Best WWII documentary on netflix?
Posted on 10/11/17 at 1:42 pm to Tigerbait357
Posted on 10/11/17 at 1:42 pm to Tigerbait357
Life Goes To War: Hollywood and the Home Front (YouTube) -- 1970s TV special hosted by Johnny Carson
Web page on the WWII home front:
"Life Goes on Back Home"
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this two hour documentary shows us how Hollywood went to war on the home front with their own army of technicians, special effects people, directors and of course, a gallery of stars who's deeds and actions during those bleak times not only helped lift the morale of the people, but packed a wallop with those serving overseas that was more powerful than any gun.
Web page on the WWII home front:
"Life Goes on Back Home"
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 1:58 pm to Champagne
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Haven't you and I spent our whole lives studying WW2?
I remember in elementary school reading every book in the library on the subject. My father was a WWII nut and bought the Time-Life series for "me" - when I was about 7.
So, yeah -
pretty much. I think Enigma may have been mentioned in passing on WaW, but just not sure. Certainly they didn't mention it for U-Boats or Coventry (where it was either decisive, or highly controversial, respectively). I want to say folks started to guess something like that happened after we admitted we broke the Japanese Purple code.
The Germans, for their part, never doubted the security of Enigma during the war - they just didn't believe anyone would devote the resources to fully crack it - even though we were decrypting all messages within a day or two by the end of the war, they still believed that, even if cracked short term, they were good when the codes changed every month.
Posted on 10/11/17 at 2:07 pm to Ace Midnight
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My father was a WWII nut and bought the Time-Life series for "me" - when I was about 7.
Yes, those books still have value. We can recall lots of good media like that from the generation that lived during WW2. We did grow up on that era of WW2 historiography.
There is one area in which the newer historiography might be weaker than the stuff from the previous generation and that area is the influence of politics on historiography. What I mean is that today, the study of History is heavily influenced by PC concerns, so, perhaps some of the conclusions of history that we see more recently are unduly influenced by PC considerations.
Posted on 10/11/17 at 2:11 pm to Ace Midnight
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The Germans, for their part, never doubted the security of Enigma during the war -
In both WW1 and WW2 the Germans were appallingly awful in this area of Intelligence/G2. You'd think they'd have learned a hard lesson when their naval codes were captured in 1915 and they suffered for the rest of the war from that, but no. They weren't smart enough to learn that lesson in either world war.
Posted on 10/11/17 at 2:12 pm to KG6
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I've got two episodes left of this and may finish it tonight
How many episodes are there in WWII in color?
Posted on 10/11/17 at 4:18 pm to jchamil
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How many episodes are there in WWII in color?
The whole series is on Netflix
I watched a few the other day
Posted on 10/11/17 at 7:03 pm to jchamil
like 12 or 13
Posted on 10/11/17 at 7:14 pm to Tigerbait357
Ww2 in color
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:42 pm to Tigerbait357
While not a documentary, take a look at this video. I didn't realize how big the war was in regards to the number of deaths till I saw this. It's hard to even comprehend something like this in today's world. ~70 million dead in 6 years sounds like a bad horror/scifi movie.
https://www.fallen.io/ww2/
https://www.fallen.io/ww2/
Posted on 10/12/17 at 7:13 am to gpburdell
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70 million dead in 6 years sounds like a bad horror/scifi movie.
And dying in combat was pretty merciful - that's a LOT of starvation/exposure deaths and a good bit of those were civilians.
Recall how self-sufficient the U.S. is (and certainly was) from a food, energy, etc., standpoint. Because of maximum effort for the war (and this was the case for almost every warring country) - even in the U.S. we had to ration necessities like food and gasoline.
Imagine smaller countries - heavily dependent on trade to keep their economies balanced, having to shift production to arms, have trade interrupted by conflict, blockades and things like that - a lot of the civilians in those countries were just on their own (and this was with most military age, able-bodied men called up for service, so this was women, children, old folks, etc.) - and we haven't started talking about what happened to civilians in occupied areas, particularly by the Germans and Soviets.
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