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honestly some really odd posts about this classic series.

posted 8 years ago by ib011f9545i
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This was first shown in 1973,it was made in the 2 or 3 years preceding that year(I assume I have not researched this in detail)so of course it is based on the technology and historical thinking of that period,so it is dated but I think it still stands as a worthwhile series,with the added bonus of interviews with so many people who were actually involved in the war.

Most people agree that this is the best series about the war but of course it is not flawless,the makers admit they could not cover everything.
If you remade this you would have access to lots more archive film but not the human witnesses and hundreds of history books and discovered records,but would you produce a better study? I doubt it.

But most of the comments on here are bizarre,revisionist comments on how great the Nazis were and how evil Churchill was.

The idea that Churchill was not a hero to the British and the free world is just silly and not backed up by any evidence.

I recall watching this on Sunday afternoon with my parents who had seen war service in the war.

[–] chicago85 8 years ago

There are many so called "institutes" in the United States that will rewrite history or any other topic for cash. Many are on college campus and some even show up on C-Span. Got a crap cancer drug, tobacco not harmful, the cause of the Great Depression, Roosevelt and Churchill are the real war criminals.

They will produce "the goods" for cold hard cash.

I don't know everything. Neither does anyone else

[–] nickm2 8 years ago

While I have no problem with 'World at War', you do talk about a pet peeve of mine, 'monday morning quarterback/20-20 hindsight historians'...take a fellow like Thomas Flemming-his revisionist 'gotcha' style of history (coupled with his pompous smugness) is pretty loathsome to me.

Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?

[–] slidell333 8 years ago

This is the first message board I've been on for this classic series and I too, am surprised and the strange posts. I mean, this is def. the benchmark for anyone wanting a comprehensive history of WWII. And all I can chalk it up to is "revisionist history" and the strange birds that promote this nonsense, the same people that have labeled our Founding Fathers racists bastards who we shouldn't be respecting, etc...yes, they owned slaves but in the grand scheme of things they can't get past that...same principal here. Churchill was not that great for the average Brit (my mother and grandmother didn't think that highly of him as Brits) but they would never say he didn't help win the war for them. On Donestic policy, not so much...

[–] zooeyhall 8 years ago

Unfortunately, it's the nature of the Internet. I remember when the Internet was first hitting it's major "stride" back in the late 1990's. And there was all this hopeful talk and predictions about how it would increase knowledge, allow more interaction, etc. etc.

Prior to the Internet, Holocaust deniers and weird theory proponents of whatever stripe were largely relegated to obscure poorly produced magazines and mailed 3rd class newsletters. Or to seminars in tacky hotels. Now they can setup a web page or troll comments (like on IMDB) with impunity. And do it from their armchairs.

Doesn't do any good to waste energy on arguing with people who think JFK was assassinated by space aliens. Or that coffee enemas are a sure-fire cure for cancer.