shirker Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Incredulous by the OP I'm the same age.... I wonder if he has read any booke in his 50 years, or travelled anywhere? Still, everyone to their opinion I guess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owlian Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 This thread keeps alive the horrors of war and the excellence of a documentary that depicted and narrated those horrors. It was the best documentary series ever made and should be made compulsory viewing for schools . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shogun Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Yes and Laurence Oliviers fantastic narration and outstanding theme music made it one of the most memorable war series ever broadcast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Smith Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 [/color]i'm just stating my opinions on watching a tv series.......Germany wanted a united europe,everyone employed and working for a living and singing from the same song sheet....not exactly happening at the moment is it..... If you really think the world would be a better place had Fascist extremist brutal bullying untrustworthy Nazi Germany won the war (which fortunately they would never have done), you obviously haven't paid much attention to the series you`re actually talking about. It`s a fact that even most Germans are pleased they "lost" the war, though pleased is perhaps the wrong word, shall we just say I`m sure they consider it the better outcome for them. PS I`ve got World at War on DVD, the history of WWII is my specialist subject ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Still, everyone to their opinion I guess! Unless you lived in Nazi Germany of course. Maybe px200 could give us their views on free speech and the right to free assembly. But I doubt they will because we all know who they really are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vague_Boy Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 my point is.......England / Britain /Europe would be in a better state if Germany had won the war..... The trains would run on time you mean? People like Alan Sugar (Jewish), Stephen Fry (gay) and Arthur Scargill (trade union leader) might disagree with you. They'd all have had a dose of Zyklon B by now. yes i know millions of people died it happens in wars unfortunatley With at least 50 million deaths, "unfortunate" is something of an understatement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callippo Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 the subject matter is so immense that even a 26 part series made a lot of ommissions. The emphasis of the whole thing is Britain and Europe, even the Pacific theater is not covered that much, you can tell the emphasis on Britain because Burma gets a whole episode to itself, a production less Brit-oriented would never have given that so much coverage. In the early 70s there were still many people around then who had personal memories of it of course and you can't blame them for playing to the audience. Had the series been an American one it would have been slanted much more the other way, with the Pacific getting much more coverage. The Middle East is pretty much totally ignored apart from North Africa even though it was a vitally important theater even east of Suez, you'd have had no idea from the series that Britain occupied Iran together with the Soviet Union for example and also invaded Iraq in 1941, they never even mentioned it. A specific episode about all the countries that were neutral during the war would also not have gone amiss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matsalleh Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 look at it now.....it couldn't have been worse ---------- Post added 05-02-2013 at 17:55 ---------- i'm just stating my opinions on watching a tv series.......Germany wanted a united europe,everyone employed and working for a living and singing from the same song sheet....not exactly happening at the moment is it..... But did they have a choice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retep Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Your point being badly put then. Non-europeans haven't started a world war like Hitler did. You were talking about peace, saying that Hitler who started the 2nd World War was some some of model for peace despite the fact we haven't had a World War 3 since his death. Britain declared war on Germany, up until then there was no World War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 When it was called the History channel I remeber the announcer saying .... and now for the last time ever of History, The World at War. It's been on 3 times since that day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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