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Finished Watching The World At War (26 Ep 70s WW2 Documentary). Very 180
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:01 PM Author: Opaque motley locale this has to be one of the best historical documentaries ever made. wife and i watched it over the past 1-2 months, and it's well worth it. everyone should watch this.
the footage is amazing. we've all seen plenty of ww2 movies, but seeing real footage is more dramatic than seeing hollywood sensationalism.
the interviews really make the series. it's utterly impressive how the production managed to secure interview with such high ranking people from all sides -- hitler's valet and hitler's secretary (who were literally in the bunker when hitler killed himself, the former who burned hitler's body), albert speer (nazi cabinet officer who was convicted at nuremburg), himler's #2, etc.
lawrence olivier is the narrator, but the interviewers really tell the story. the production really do a good job at telling the story through people who lived the war -- high ranking government people, rank and file soldiers, and civilians.
they also did a great job showing the german, russian and japanese sides of things in a fair way that made the viewer, not the production, be the judge of what's the truth so it didn't seem like pro-western propaganda.
wife's main complaint was that she didn't like how the storytelling wasn't chronological. the episodes are thematic. so the series moves back and forth in time. wife thought that harms the ability of the series to tell a coherent story from A to Z. i figured it's impossible to do a good job of covering a three-front war in strictly chronological order and didn't mind the editorial discretion to run the series topically.
all in all, everyone should watch this. i learned an absolute ton.
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:04 PM Author: Coral cruise ship people who are hurt what did you learn? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562721) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:17 PM Author: Opaque motley locale my prior knowledge of ww2 is mainly: big big big 1) the jewish story (nazi ideology, jews being persecuted, holocaust, etc), and 2) the US-centric version that i learned in ap us history and in major US movies (we stayed out of the war, pearl harbor, d-day, a-bomb).
i previously knew almost nothing about the pacific war. i'd heard the battle names -- midway, iwo jima, saipan, etc. but i had no perspective on what they were and how they happened and the chain of events and strategies and struggles of each country. i also didn't virtually anything about all proxy wars that the japs fought the west in -- phillipines, burma, etc.
i also knew very little about the eastern front and the battles in north africa. i knew the very big stuff on the most superficial level, but didn't know the details of these struggles and how they related to the overall global war strategies of the major players. i didn't really understand what anyone was doing in north africa until now.
aside from timelines and war x's and o's, i learned a lot of the social and human perspectives on the war told through the stories of people. you don't get this kind of stuff in the movies. |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:18 PM Author: Coral cruise ship people who are hurt jews were persecuted? which country did that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562763) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:20 PM Author: Opaque motley locale japan. too many BJC expats were raping their women that their pilots went kamakaze (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562769) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: cheese-eating swashbuckling really tough guy I once had to write a term paper in college on With the Old Breed (book HBO's Pacific series based on). Prof was an ex military nutfuck and I was able to secure an A- by repeating multiple times that the Marines at Okinawa were in fact very very very badass (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49564357) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:48 PM Author: Opaque motley locale in fact very very very badass tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49564438) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:12 PM Author: floppy stage it's incredibly good The Great War from 1964 is equally good |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:18 PM Author: Opaque motley locale just downloaded it tonight, and it's next for us. wife is super excited. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562761) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:19 PM Author: floppy stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562766) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:14 PM Author: indigo clown depressive You forgot to link or say where to stream (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562747) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:20 PM Author: Opaque motley locale no, i didn't forget. but here:
https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=78043272 |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 6:12 AM Author: indigo clown depressive I was being polite - you’re a useless faggot and your wife is obviously fat and gross (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563358) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:59 AM Author: Opaque motley locale Great contribution to this thread! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563474) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:20 AM Author: indigo clown depressive I made the single most important contribution to this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563735) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:26 PM Author: Aqua abnormal space sound barrier Unmitigated 180
It couldn't be made today because the subjects interviewed are long dead, it covers the German perspective, and it's quite detailed and in depth.
With respect to the interviews: All history writing (and documenteries and lectures) is biased and incomlete. At least with works produced shortly after the events, like this one, we can hear directly from the sources. History content created later is largely an invention of its creator and probably laughably off the mark in most cases. |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:43 PM Author: Opaque motley locale *ken burns interviews AI ben franklin discussing how indian ideology influenced the revolutionary war* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562810) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:44 PM Author: floppy stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562813) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:47 PM Author: Coral cruise ship people who are hurt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562819) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:48 PM Author: lilac odious toaster stock car I saw parts of this as a kid. Some revisionist podcasts were covering it recently, but it was a painful slog to listen to all the whining about, "Why were the Soviets so mean to the Germans?" combined with "The Germans waged total race war on the Eastern Front because they were forced to." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562822) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:52 PM Author: Opaque motley locale one moment that sticks with me is curtis lemay defending our use of the bomb by saying that us troops were tired and emotionally worn out from all the tough fighting. obviously there's more to it than that, but i think he may have either put his foot in his mouth a bit or was quoted out of context. they used this quote juxtaposed with other powerful people talking about the necessity of the bomb and its implications.
i'm no shitlib pacifist and fuck the japs, but the use of the bomb really makes you question humanity. |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:58 PM Author: Coral cruise ship people who are hurt why? who cares imo they wanted total war and then they bitch when they get it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562840) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:02 PM Author: Opaque motley locale tbf, the whole fucking war (plus ww1) makes you question humanity. ww2 was brutal as fuck. so much senseless loss of life all around the world. the 20th century was truly a brutal century. mankind is fucked up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562852) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:08 PM Author: Beady-eyed Main People WW1 battlefields really drive this home. The British took 60,000 casualties (20,000 KIA) in like two hours on the first day of the Somme offensive and went nowhere. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562875) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:16 PM Author: Opaque motley locale jfc. it's just crazy to think these young guys were going into some battle where there was a 90% chance they'd be blown the fuck up, e.g., getting across on land in some of these battles against japan in the pacific. i dont know how guys could not be cowards.
i know very little about ww1 other than the big hollywood movies like 1917 and all quiet on the western front. looking forward to the ww1 docu. |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:18 PM Author: Beady-eyed Main People The Douaumont Ossuary really fucked me up. If you get into this, def do a WW1 battlefield tour. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562910) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:22 PM Author: Opaque motley locale wow that looks scary -- the bones are on display?
have you been to this memorial village in france:
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/oradour-sur-glane-martyred-village |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:23 PM Author: Beady-eyed Main People Haven't been there, no. Yes, the unidentified pieces of 100,000+ people blown apart by artillery and left to rot on the battlefield in Verdun until after the war's end. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562927) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 9:02 AM Author: Frisky corn cake prole Have you read guns of august (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563486) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 9:41 AM Author: Beady-eyed Main People Yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563535) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:19 PM Author: Bateful walnut tattoo public bath (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562915) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:03 PM Author: Ebony Faggotry Lemay was 100% right and saved millions of lives. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562855) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:05 PM Author: Opaque motley locale i know it saved millions of lives. but the way he said it was that it ended the war a little bit quicker and got the troops home sooner bc they were tired. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562859) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:07 PM Author: Ebony Faggotry Probably making him look bad intentionally. He was a political animal aligned with kennedy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562868) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:11 PM Author: henna pungent national LeMay was one of JFK's biggest critics and was enraged that he wouldn't invade Cuba during the missile crisis. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562883) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:51 PM Author: Ebony Faggotry Ok whatevs. The producers want to diwvredit him so take one of his typically gruff candid comments out of context and make him look dumb. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49564670) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 10:33 PM Author: henna pungent national LeMay was dumb. He was George Wallace's running mate in 1968 and told reporters he would consider using nuclear weapons in Vietnam. Wallace was humiliated and they finished a distant third in the election. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49565700) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 10:40 PM Author: Opaque motley locale isnt winning 5 states / 45 EVs / 14% outstanding for a 3rd party? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49565711) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 10:44 PM Author: henna pungent national Wallace's goal was to win enough states to deny Nixon or Humphrey a majority, thereby throwing the election into the House. He failed miserably, and many believe LeMay's comments were responsible. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49565721) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:07 PM Author: Beady-eyed Main People XO Lemay was a BUCKEYE (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562871) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:03 PM Author: Honey-headed orchestra pit ladyboy no fucking way jew. dropping the bomb was the worst thing any country has ever done. its not even close. Offing half a million civilians because (insert bullshit reason) is insanity. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563853) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:04 PM Author: Razzle shimmering institution lmao where are you getting your numbers from? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563854) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:46 AM Author: Charismatic up-to-no-good pit pozpig Read tennozan by George feifer.
Okinawa is the definitive argument for the bomb.
Lemay, of course, was a psychopath |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 6:13 AM Author: indigo clown depressive Sarah Paine argues that using the bomb saved millions of Japanese who were about to die from starvation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563359) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:06 PM Author: azure spectacular hell It's 180, no idea why it's so hard to find online. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562864) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:08 PM Author: Opaque motley locale see the torrent link above. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562873) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:11 PM Author: misunderstood striped hyena whorehouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562882) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:15 PM Author: Medicated dead telephone mother i'd recommend two books about the Pacific Theatre:
Eugene Sledge’s memoir, "With the Old Breed" Richard Tregaskis, "Guadalcanal Diary"
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:18 PM Author: Opaque motley locale ty. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562906) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 4:08 AM Author: Razzle shimmering institution (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563314) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:43 AM Author: glittery nursing home ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563466) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:16 PM Author: mauve indian lodge cr, I don't remember if I finished it but what I remember was 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49562899) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 10:33 PM Author: azure spectacular hell Daily Motion has them all:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x94t5kc
Go to 50:04 to see the genius of this production - they use the distant refrains of the "Wenn Wir Marschieren" marching song on top of videos of Germans surrendering outside Moscow to create a mood. Poignant as fuck. |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:22 AM Author: azure spectacular hell https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x94t5kc?start=3001 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563181) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:24 AM Author: Effete thriller school cafeteria lettuce I watched this all I learned was that Eva Braun was a babe in her prime. Cotdamn.
Combine with Albert Speer's postwar quote on her at Hitler's relationship. "She was for bed." |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 9:01 AM Author: Opaque motley locale There were much better random Aryan girls in the footage than this:
https://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/classes/33d/projects/naziwomen/eva00000.png |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 9:06 AM Author: Frisky corn cake prole much better random Aryan girls in the footage tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563489) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:45 AM Author: Effete thriller school cafeteria lettuce She chunked up later in life but in her youth she was lithe and flexible hth. Typical ugly German face but that's how 95% of German women are. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563794) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:21 PM Author: Opaque motley locale wwop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563919) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:52 AM Author: hilarious tanning salon The War at Sea is also excellent. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563296) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:24 AM Author: Ruddy self-absorbed parlour Bookmarked, ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563445) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 9:04 AM Author: Frisky corn cake prole (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817360&forum_id=2...#49563487) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:38 AM Author: Razzle shimmering institution looks like most of the series is on YT for free..
first episode
https://youtu.be/0b4g4ZZNC1E |