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Originally Posted by TSXCman
If the Blythe episode is the one where that insane soldier runs through the enemies base and back to relay info... That is one of the strongest scenes from any show made
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Blythe is predominant (as a "side story") in Ep.3, "Carentan".
The house to house combat scenes (vs. their German
Fallschirmjager counterparts) in this episode are harrowing (to say the least).
They really captured the feeling of "being there", in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby
"Why We Fight" is up there for me too.
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While the "Why we Fight" episode is also well done, I can't help but feeling that there is a slight degree of "agenda" connected to it. While it is indeed based on an actual event...there were
thousands of such "satellite work camps" located
all over the Reich in 1945. A large percentage of those poor souls who
remained under incarceration by that point in the war, were
not German jews (as the
entire camp population was depicted by the series). Most were actually "Eastern" POW's, dissidents [from all over the occupied/formerly occupied "
Grossraum"], or "common criminals" (thieves, rapists, murderers) from within Germany itself.
The "
endlossung" was more or less complete by this point; the "useless mouths" had been "obviated".
The Jews who remained in the "system" were almost all "skilled workers" (such as those at the Dora/Mittelwerk sub-camps [Nordhausen] or the Gusen complex [Mauthausen]).
The confused situation within Germany by this point had led to a complete breakdown in the entire system; disease and deprivation were completly out of control.
Added to this were the millions of displaced slave laborers from the "east"...force marched in the face of the vengeful Red Army.
Don't interpret this post the wrong way...I'm
no apologist for the hideous crimes of the Hitler regime. I'm just saying that
chances are very slim that any jews would be kept alive to cut timber (unskilled labor, as depicted in the series) when the "bastages" (ugh: swear filter;
sometimes calling a spade, a spade is
really required) had other "options" available.
The "depiction"
was made by
choice; made for the consumption of the "viewing audience", by those who wrote/produced that particular episode.
To someone with considerably more knowledge (and a lifetime of research) devoted to the
actual situation...it rings a little like an "agenda"...capiche?
NB. I have done
no research whatsoever into the validity of the "depiction", I'm just stating the
common situation at the time.
