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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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  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    I watched The Great War as it released and it rules but kinda lost track after it wasn’t 100 years later week by week live coverage. Also I don’t reeeeally trust Indy to talk about nazism

    • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      I decided to check back in with it and watch some of the more current episodes and it does feel like he’s talking with the right disdain about the holocaust but some of his sources on the Soviet invasion of Germany feel a little hitler-detector in terms of war crime manufacture. Oh well. Is there any other reason why you say you dont trust him to talk about nazism.