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re: Best WWII documentary on netflix?
Posted on 10/11/17 at 12:48 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 10/11/17 at 12:48 pm to Ace Midnight
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1990s or later.
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.
This post was edited on 10/11/17 at 1:06 pm
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.
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