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The wife and I were digging through old doccos uploaded to Youtube and stumbled across The Occult History of the Third Reich, which sounds for all the world like a History Channel “OMG THE NAZI GOLD!” type sensationalist pile of bs. Surprisingly enough though it’s a pretty detailed look at the roots and practices of the more esoteric side of everyone’s least favourite fascists, and how it all tied into their genocidal ideology. I was extremely impressed.
So brainrot re-engaged we started watching The World At War, and it’s cool but I desire a non-Western perspective. I realise that a lot of countries in say, Eastern Europe might not have as much reason to fetishise past wars through documentary as the US and its military industrial complex, but I’d really like to see the second world war through other lenses. Soooo much of American and British WWII doccos are sooooo bad. Pull up the 1995 Battlefield series and it’s all “dyk that Hitler was actually a big stinky dumbdumb and his generals were all very sexy nicebois who oversaw no crimes and could have totes legitsies taken Moscow and Kursk if not for that meddling Adolf??” type garbage.
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World War II in Colour had some moments that raises the eyebrows, but it:
a) Explains how Britain caused WW2 due to their hatred of the Soviets
b) Why Stalin signed the non-aggression pact with Hitler
c) Shows how Spain was used as a proxy war between Russia and Germany (and how the League of Nations - especially France - led to a Fascist victory)
d) Explains how Russia was pivotal for ending the war
Overall, I thought it was very good.
DISCLAIMER: Watched it around a decade ago, so might be foggy
It was somewhat decent for a western doc, though I thought they spent too little time talking about the “Eastern Front” and too much time talking about other theaters