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Hitler : Could He Have Been Stopped ? Interesting programme on whether Chamberlain's policy of appeasement towards Hitler was, at the time a valid proposition. Lots of informed opinions, including from my old history professor he really doesn't like Churchill.

As usual in these type of programmes there's no consensus reached, but worth a watch if you like this sort of thing. On 5 Select, but no doubt on some kind of digital replay thingy. There's a second episode next week.

 
Yeh, I enjoyed that when it came out a few years ago. Caused a lot of debate in Germany at the time
I’ve seen some people suggesting that it’s a modern propaganda film and just the Germans trying to absolve themselves of some responsibility, and/or depict all Germans as victims.

I didn’t get that impression at all.
 
I’ve seen some people suggesting that it’s a modern propaganda film and just the Germans trying to absolve themselves of some responsibility, and/or depict all Germans as victims.

I didn’t get that impression at all.
Few years since I’ve seen it, but the thing that stood out to me as being incorrect was that the German youngsters were still Seeing their Jewish friends in about 1941/42? In reality, the Jews would have been persona non grata at this time
 
Hitler : Could He Have Been Stopped ? Interesting programme on whether Chamberlain's policy of appeasement towards Hitler was, at the time a valid proposition. Lots of informed opinions, including from my old history professor he really doesn't like Churchill.

As usual in these type of programmes there's no consensus reached, but worth a watch if you like this sort of thing. On 5 Select, but no doubt on some kind of digital replay thingy. There's a second episode next week.


Not quite on the same lines as could he have been stopped but there’s an excellent book called What We Knew which interviews people right across the spectrum from the time he rose to power and throughout the war. From German Jewish people that got out, to those who survived the camps to Non German Jewish who were members of the Nazi party. Really good read if you’re into that sort of thing Summer.

I think I’ve mentioned this on here before but my nan was a non Jewish German who worked on a farm during the war. She grew up in the same town as Goebells, said everyone hated him before he ever rose to power. She maintained to the day she died she didn’t know anything about what was happening to the Jewish. She said she knew they were put in camps but not went on there.

She said most people hated the Nazis, they’d come to her farm and tell the owner what they could and couldn’t slaughter to eat (you were only allowed to kill 1 pig a year for yourself). When the SS left they kill something else to eat and just never tell them, make up a story how it got killed by a dog or something. My nan was amazing to talk to and obviously I’d never have called her out but based on that book there was a part of me that thinks you have to have known what was going on
 
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Skylines on netflix is a hidden gem.

Apparently despite a clamour for a 2nd season (and a trailer coming out) they binned it because a company with the same 'skylines' name threatened to sue them.
 
Not quite on the same lines as could he have been stopped but there’s an excellent book called What We Knew which interviews people right across the spectrum from the time he rose to power and throughout the war. From German Jewish people that got out, to those who survived the camps to Non German Jewish who were members of the Nazi party. Really good read if you’re into that sort of thing Summer.

I think I’ve mentioned this on here before but my nan was a non Jewish German who worked on a farm during the war. She grew up in the same town as Goebells, said everyone hated him before he ever rose to power. She maintained to the day she died she didn’t know anything about what was happening to the Jewish. She said she knew they were put in camps but not went on there.

She said most people hated the Nazis, they’d come to her farm and tell the owner what they could and couldn’t slaughter to eat (you were only allowed to kill 1 pig a year for yourself). When the SS left they kill something else to eat and just never tell them, make up a story how it got killed by a dog or something. My nan was amazing to talk to and obviously I’d never have called her out but based on that book there was a part of me that thinks you have to have known what was going on
Collective amnesia, a bit like the great British public when it comes to vote at a General Election.
 

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