Wow, the Hitler obsessed channel will give us the 3rd Reich in HD with 5.1 audio!?
(seriously look at their schedule and remove the umteen Hitler/Germany/3rd Reich/Nazi tech shows and there's really b*gger all of much else. It's such a shame really as their US Civil War series was very good and they have had some very good programs on Korea and Vietnam but those really are the small minority)
There is a reason they keep making WW 2 / Hitler shows, because they get good ratings. I find WW2 the most interesting war to watch a documentary about.
The thing is though, there's a hell of a lot more to WW2 than fawning over everything Hitler, Nazi Germany or the 1930's - 1940's technical inventions the German side made.
It has given rise to all sorts of misconceptions; these invariably down-play allied technology, which was in fact either more or just as advanced - with a mere handful of exceptions in a very few specific areas, most of which were conceptual and had absolutely no relevance or practical application to the war.
It creates a laughably childish view of technological advance, where their mere concept drawings - or even initial prototype(s) - are taken to mean they were 'right on the verge of having x, y or z' with zero consideration given to the years of hard work needed to turn concepts and prototypes in operational types.
There was a calculated glamour to the Nazi regalia (Hugo Boss designed uniforms etc) and undoubtedly the 'dark side' has it's appeal for some but IMO the History channel is obsessed in a deeply partial and unhealthy way.
I just can't see why we give those monsters so much air-time and our own side so little. It is IMO something of an insult to those of us whos' families suffered, died and lost so much in WW2.
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Wow, the Hitler obsessed channel will give us the 3rd Reich in HD with 5.1 audio!?
(seriously look at their schedule and remove the umteen Hitler/Germany/3rd Reich/Nazi tech shows and there's really b*gger all of much else.
It's such a shame really as their US Civil War series was very good and they have had some very good programs on Korea and Vietnam but those really are the small minority)
There is a reason they keep making WW 2 / Hitler shows, because they get good ratings. I find WW2 the most interesting war to watch a documentary about.
Ivan, speaking generally I'd agree.
The thing is though, there's a hell of a lot more to WW2 than fawning over everything Hitler, Nazi Germany or the 1930's - 1940's technical inventions the German side made.
It has given rise to all sorts of misconceptions; these invariably down-play allied technology, which was in fact either more or just as advanced - with a mere handful of exceptions in a very few specific areas, most of which were conceptual and had absolutely no relevance or practical application to the war.
It creates a laughably childish view of technological advance, where their mere concept drawings - or even initial prototype(s) - are taken to mean they were 'right on the verge of having x, y or z' with zero consideration given to the years of hard work needed to turn concepts and prototypes in operational types.
There was a calculated glamour to the Nazi regalia (Hugo Boss designed uniforms etc) and undoubtedly the 'dark side' has it's appeal for some but IMO the History channel is obsessed in a deeply partial and unhealthy way.
I just can't see why we give those monsters so much air-time and our own side so little.
It is IMO something of an insult to those of us whos' families suffered, died and lost so much in WW2.