Last Good War - Part 1 of 2 - Lincoln Hoppe - WWII

[anchonicho100]

@ppsdonovan is rigth because world war 1 was sort of german faul but they didnt start it they were just prepared and when it ended they made germany suffer alot they made there money close to worthless and made them rebuild all other contries with the treaty of versay germany was simply breaking away from the chains that they put on them that is why the germans didnt realy look at the bad side of hitler because at first he was just giving them freedom again....

[woobinda65]

This is a different movie.

Germans are not the usual evil giggling foolish soldiers of the other "politically-correct" war movies.

Probably in this movie they have been portrayed as they really were: fearful human beings into the hell of a war desired by someone else.

Killers exactly like their "enemies"

I don't speak english so I don't understand how the poor german soldier died in the second part (frozen to death? R.I.P.).

Please, explain me!

Thanks.

[TreeHugsPlanetLove]

Why do some of the americans have kar98s?

[tranmere789]

Another popular American assumption is that this country’s enemies in World War II were all non-democratic dictatorships. In fact, on each side there were regimes that were repressive or dictatorial, as well as governments that had broad public support. Many of the countries allied with the US were headed by governments that were oppressive, dictatorial, or otherwise non-democratic. Finland , a democratic republic, was an important wartime partner of Hitler’s Germany .

[tranmere789]

At the conclusion of the Nuremberg trial of 1945-1946, the respected British weekly The Economist cited Soviet crimes, and then added, “Nor should the Western world console itself that the Russians alone stand condemned at the bar of the Allies' own justice.” The Economist editorial went on:

"Can the Anglo-Saxon leaders who at Potsdam condoned the expulsion of millions of Germans from their homes hold themselves completely innocent? "

[tranmere789]

US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson:

"The French are so violating the Geneva Convention in the treatment of [German] prisoners of war that our command is taking back prisoners sent to them [for forced labor in France ]. We are prosecuting plunder and our Allies are practicing it. We say aggressive war is a crime and one of our allies asserts sovereignty over the Baltic States based on no title except conquest.”

[tranmere789]

Edgar L. Jones served as an ambulance driver,he wrote an article dispelling some myths about the Americans’ role in the war:

“We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled the flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter-openers.”

[tranmere789]

Paul Fussell, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who served in World War II as a US Army lieutenant, wrote in his acclaimed book Wartime that “the Allied war has been sanitized and romanticized almost beyond recognition by the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant and the bloodthirsty.”

[tranmere789]

Good war?

America 's other great wartime ally, the Soviet Union, was, by any objective measure, the most tyrannical or oppressive regime of its time, and a vastly more cruel despotism than Hitler's Germany . As historians acknowledge, the victims of Soviet dictator Stalin greatly outnumber those who perished as a result of Hitler’s policies. Robert Conquest estimates the number of those who lost their lives as a consequence of Stalin’s policies as “no fewer than 20 million.”

[crazyspazz8221]

@PSPDonovan did you know that all canadians in ww2 were volenteers

[otakucuyabro]

I like see thiss history.....

[progamerrus1234]

nice movie

[MrJoe48]

@PSPDonovan thats very true. yes the german authoirty where bad during WWII but the large majority of even the military didnt know what was going on with the jews ect ect. they where doing what any good man would do and thats serve his country. i am sure alot of them would of refused if they knew what was going on. But not every German WWII was a heartless killer like most people think

[HeyHiHelloJon]

@MrJoe48 Very true

[MH681001]

toooooooooo nice to be a German

[HandzarMitraljezac]

yea every american unit has a sharpshooter while German K98s with smokeless powder are portrayed nothing more than muskets that fire blanks and make no hits

[zzxzxz]

he dont kown garman

[litteboxer]

if you painted the helmets green, this would have been a little better. but other wise, this blew me away.

[CoolDog202]

If you knew anything about world war two you would know that GI used helmet covers.

duh

[litteboxer]

i'm not dumb. at the time i didnt know.

duh.

[jws54]

this is well done with much attention to uniforms and details. It lends a lot to the credibility of the film. Thanks to all who participated in the creation of it. It is quite powerful.

[poppyl90]

awesome!

[aexpiacao]

I have always loved this short film. Loved it! Glad it's been posted now.