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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: Trip ruddy spot 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: useless awkward brethren 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: useless awkward brethren 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: sexy fanboi 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: idiotic jet-lagged garrison it's incredibly good The Great War from 1964 is equally good |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:18 PM Author: Trip ruddy spot 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: idiotic jet-lagged garrison (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: Arrogant hyperactive travel guidebook 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: Arrogant hyperactive travel guidebook 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: Arrogant hyperactive travel guidebook 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: Bisexual carnelian clown 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: Trip ruddy spot *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: idiotic jet-lagged garrison (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: useless awkward brethren (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: Cheese-eating odious milk abode 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: useless awkward brethren 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: exciting round eye 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: exciting round eye 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: exciting round eye 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: Supple University Reading Party 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: exciting round eye 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: Spruce theater yarmulke (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: vigorous impressive kitchen elastic band 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: vigorous impressive kitchen elastic band 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: Brilliant temple gaping 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: vigorous impressive kitchen elastic band 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: Brilliant temple gaping 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: Brilliant temple gaping 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: exciting round eye 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: Razzmatazz mad cow disease sneaky criminal 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: Galvanic location community account 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 mediation 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: Arrogant hyperactive travel guidebook 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: Aromatic senate mother 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: Black pit (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: Appetizing shrine sandwich 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: Galvanic location community account (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: vibrant chestnut nowag 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: Dead native messiness 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: Aromatic senate mother 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: Aromatic senate mother 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: Seedy dilemma knife 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: Supple University Reading Party 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: Seedy dilemma knife 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: Trip ruddy spot 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: rebellious pale whorehouse 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: Plum Legal Warrant Mad-dog Skullcap 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: Supple University Reading Party (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: Galvanic location community account looks like most of the series is on YT for free..
first episode
https://youtu.be/0b4g4ZZNC1E |
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Date: January 26th, 2026 10:36 AM Author: My real dad left at 11, brother. I'm up to episode 8, this is quite 180. It's mostly the straight up version of history and so kind of familiar, but very useful for connecting all the parts.
Thanks, OP.
Btw, all the episodes are on Daily Motion. Not all are on Youtube. |
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Date: January 26th, 2026 10:48 AM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., enjoy! it's 180
we're now slowly watching the great war (the BBC WW1 26-part series), which i highly recommend too and will poast about when we eventually finish. |