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Post by JimBow{QAW} on Jul 26, 2017 13:20:35 GMT -5
Hello Troops!! I watched this documentary recently - Link (YouTube). Pretty cool video with a proper timeline of major events during WW2... from the Allies perspective ofc. One of my highlights, a quote from George A. Taylor (Wiki) while on Omaha Beach: "There are two kinds of people who are staying on this beach: those who are dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here" These kind of quotes will help us for when we next role-play aye?
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Post by Lion{QAW} on Jul 28, 2017 4:09:29 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing, but the one-and-a-half minute intro already made me decide not to watch it any further. The bias already becambe unbearable. The longer ago WWII has happened, the worse the documentaries about it become somehow. I'm quite afraid what kind of nonsense future generations will be taught about this conflict.
Thumbs up for the great collection of video material and the colouring done on them though.
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Post by Cowboy{QAW} on Aug 29, 2017 17:58:32 GMT -5
I know this is old now...I often found the best way to get a perspective on history is to talk to those who lived through it. This is rapidly getting more difficult to do sadly. The victors always right the history books, but it doesnt mean there completely accurate. There were a lot of germans that fought this war not because they were nazis, but because it was there homeland, and many were conscripted the same way they were here.
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Post by Lion{QAW} on Aug 31, 2017 7:07:59 GMT -5
I often found the best way to get a perspective on history is to talk to those who lived through it. It kind of depends who you ask and what you ask. The majority of people had no idea about what exactly was going on, apart from that what affected their daily lives of course. Also, "the first casualty of war is truth". What many people that lived through WWII remember is for a large part what they were told, heard or read at the time - which of course was strictly regulated and censored by state press. On all sides. I find WWII both incredibly interesting and complex. Actually, the more I read about it, the less I understand about it
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