pfischer-72246
Joined Oct 2015
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A huge amount of work gone has clearly gone into this series. The colorized footage is amazing and makes the series feel as if these events had unfolded in the recent past.
The series gives a strong sense of the global nature of the conflict and the scale of atrocities and horrors committed across the world.
Watching this in December 2023 is a stark reminder of the dangers the world faces and how events can gradually spiral out of control.
Especially when one side is driven by a very powerful and determined orator on a mission. Us humans seem to have an ability to be manipulated and fired up by such people...
I was especially struck by how many soldiers from across the world and the diversity of ethnicities fighting for us allies and for a cause that must have felt somewhat distant.
One section describes the experience of a black American soldier and his comrades who wanted to "be the best" in their tank outfit even though they suffered racial abuse from their white comrades. He joined the tank regiment as apparently at that time the US would not allow him in the air force! How things have not changed so much!
My one criticism as an English viewer is a sense that the war was fought and won mainly by the USA (with Russia)... I think it is fair to say that the UK did play a part in this conflict!
Finally there is a wonderful scene in which a young Italian girl offers a fresh peach to a British pow. Keep an eye out for that, it restores ones faith in the human race.
The series gives a strong sense of the global nature of the conflict and the scale of atrocities and horrors committed across the world.
Watching this in December 2023 is a stark reminder of the dangers the world faces and how events can gradually spiral out of control.
Especially when one side is driven by a very powerful and determined orator on a mission. Us humans seem to have an ability to be manipulated and fired up by such people...
I was especially struck by how many soldiers from across the world and the diversity of ethnicities fighting for us allies and for a cause that must have felt somewhat distant.
One section describes the experience of a black American soldier and his comrades who wanted to "be the best" in their tank outfit even though they suffered racial abuse from their white comrades. He joined the tank regiment as apparently at that time the US would not allow him in the air force! How things have not changed so much!
My one criticism as an English viewer is a sense that the war was fought and won mainly by the USA (with Russia)... I think it is fair to say that the UK did play a part in this conflict!
Finally there is a wonderful scene in which a young Italian girl offers a fresh peach to a British pow. Keep an eye out for that, it restores ones faith in the human race.
