World War 2 Movies
Three films on Hitler’s last Days – EVIL’S GRAND END
“Berlin where Hitler had fought his last battles against marriage and the Red Army and, defeated by both Venus and Mars, blew out his troubled brains”. This is one of the most significant lines by my favorite writer Len Deighton which appears in the Bernard Samson series of spy thrillers. This post will show why.…
Read MoreNUREMBERG (2000) – Evil fascinates
When World War 2 ended, the Allies decided to put all the top Nazi leadership on trial. The “undertrials” would be given the best of “Western” justice – the very kind of justice that they had denied to most, if not all, their victims in the countries occupied by them. The trial of the…
Read MoreThe Forgotten Battle – Predictable yet engrossing
The Historical map and background shown at the beginning of the first few seconds clarify what the film is all about. Simply put, since French ports were still in German hands and being defended resolutely, the only other port, easily captured was Antwerp in Belgium which sat at the end of the long journey…
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