What program/film/documentary are you watching now?

[MakeeLearn]

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford


Backing was pulled when the MACHINE realized it was not going to be the normal high action, bigger than life movie. Some say it moves too slowly. It's a study in character and pulls you into that time. Visually it's beautiful moving pictures.
Ive read that the orignal flim was 4 hours and may be released someday.

Available online? Links?

At putlocker, will have to click through the adware 2 or 3 times then it will play. The best way is to quickly close the adware page before it fully loads.

http://putlocker.is/watch-the-assassina ... ocker.html

[warspite1]

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Anyone watch Westworld? Thoughts? Opinions? Worth watching?

I saw the first episode, pretty dark and it really did not hold my interest [:(]...the original movie was very good! [:)]

warspite1

Thanks Patrick - I'll give the first episode a go - but in two minds at the moment as to whether to bother.

[wings7]

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Anyone watch Westworld? Thoughts? Opinions? Worth watching?

I saw the first episode, pretty dark and it really did not hold my interest [:(]...the original movie was very good! [:)]

warspite1

Thanks Patrick - I'll give the first episode a go - but in two minds at the moment as to whether to bother.

You might like it...the cinematography is good as well as the acting...if you like Anthony Hopkins it's worth a watch!

[wings7]

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford


Backing was pulled when the MACHINE realized it was not going to be the normal high action, bigger than life movie. Some say it moves too slowly. It's a study in character and pulls you into that time. Visually it's beautiful moving pictures.
Ive read that the orignal flim was 4 hours and may be released someday.

Available online? Links?

At putlocker, will have to click through the adware 2 or 3 times then it will play. The best way is to quickly close the adware page before it fully loads.

http://putlocker.is/watch-the-assassina ... ocker.html

Thanks for the link, I think I'll pass, adware is not my friend. [:(]

[warspite1]

Hitler: The Rise and Fall

Three parter. The first one was surprisingly good - amazing how many photos of crowds in Vienna and elsewhere that they have found and identified Hitler in!

Also I never realised, but apparently he was never made a corporal. He was a Private First Class. Anyone else ever hear that?

[zakblood]

USS Indianapolis Men of Courage

[wings7]

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Hitler: The Rise and Fall

Three parter. The first one was surprisingly good - amazing how many photos of crowds in Vienna and elsewhere that they have found and identified Hitler in!

Also I never realised, but apparently he was never made a corporal. He was a Private First Class. Anyone else ever hear that?

Yes, according to Wikipedia he was a 'Gefreiter', a private or private first class...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
Do you have a link or info to "Hitler: The Rise and Fall", it sounds like must see for a WWII buff. [:)]

[warspite1]

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Hitler: The Rise and Fall

Three parter. The first one was surprisingly good - amazing how many photos of crowds in Vienna and elsewhere that they have found and identified Hitler in!

Also I never realised, but apparently he was never made a corporal. He was a Private First Class. Anyone else ever hear that?

Yes, according to Wikipedia he was a 'Gefreiter', a private or private first class...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
Do you have a link or info to "Hitler: The Rise and Fall", it sounds like must see for a WWII buff. [:)]

warspite1

Not sure what is accessible in other parts of the world, but this 3-part series is currently showing on 'More 4' part of the UK's Channel 4.

Apparently the story that he was promoted in the field to corporal was a story he invented to make him sound good - as was the story he concocted about how he got his Iron Cross (via a daring mission in which he captured a bunch of French soldiers single-handed - the incident did happen, but Hitler wasn't the guy responsible).

[Orm]

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Hitler: The Rise and Fall

Three parter. The first one was surprisingly good - amazing how many photos of crowds in Vienna and elsewhere that they have found and identified Hitler in!

Also I never realised, but apparently he was never made a corporal. He was a Private First Class. Anyone else ever hear that?

Yes, according to Wikipedia he was a 'Gefreiter', a private or private first class...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
Do you have a link or info to "Hitler: The Rise and Fall", it sounds like must see for a WWII buff. [:)]

And 'Gefreiter' could be translated into 'Lance corporal'.

[warspite1]

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Hitler: The Rise and Fall

Three parter. The first one was surprisingly good - amazing how many photos of crowds in Vienna and elsewhere that they have found and identified Hitler in!

Also I never realised, but apparently he was never made a corporal. He was a Private First Class. Anyone else ever hear that?

Yes, according to Wikipedia he was a 'Gefreiter', a private or private first class...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
Do you have a link or info to "Hitler: The Rise and Fall", it sounds like must see for a WWII buff. [:)]

And 'Gefreiter' could be translated into 'Lance corporal'.

warspite1

Its really strange. The program said that newly released records showed this to be the case. If true - and it would be staggering if the program makers have lied or got it wrong given the quality of the historians involved - I wonder why and how the idea that he was made Corporal has lasted so long? I have just looked at Bullock's Parallel Lives incase I had missed something, but he too states that Hitler was made Corporal and exhibited incredible personal bravery (a reference to the supposed Iron Cross episode).

[wings7]

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Hitler: The Rise and Fall

Three parter. The first one was surprisingly good - amazing how many photos of crowds in Vienna and elsewhere that they have found and identified Hitler in!

Also I never realised, but apparently he was never made a corporal. He was a Private First Class. Anyone else ever hear that?

Yes, according to Wikipedia he was a 'Gefreiter', a private or private first class...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
Do you have a link or info to "Hitler: The Rise and Fall", it sounds like must see for a WWII buff. [:)]

warspite1

Not sure what is accessible in other parts of the world, but this 3-part series is currently showing on 'More 4' part of the UK's Channel 4.

You Brits (all Europeans, really) get all the good stuff...I found this on YouTube, is this it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCClBdXJ5cg

[wings7]

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Hitler: The Rise and Fall

Three parter. The first one was surprisingly good - amazing how many photos of crowds in Vienna and elsewhere that they have found and identified Hitler in!

Also I never realised, but apparently he was never made a corporal. He was a Private First Class. Anyone else ever hear that?

Yes, according to Wikipedia he was a 'Gefreiter', a private or private first class...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
Do you have a link or info to "Hitler: The Rise and Fall", it sounds like must see for a WWII buff. [:)]

And 'Gefreiter' could be translated into 'Lance corporal'.

Orm, if I may respectfully ask, according to whom?

[warspite1]

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Yes, according to Wikipedia he was a 'Gefreiter', a private or private first class...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
Do you have a link or info to "Hitler: The Rise and Fall", it sounds like must see for a WWII buff. [:)]

warspite1

Not sure what is accessible in other parts of the world, but this 3-part series is currently showing on 'More 4' part of the UK's Channel 4.

You Brits (all Europeans, really) get all the good stuff...I found this on YouTube, is this it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCClBdXJ5cg

warspite1

No 'fraid not. No idea if this link works for you guys but here is episode 2.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/hitl ... /62477-002

[Orm]

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Yes, according to Wikipedia he was a 'Gefreiter', a private or private first class...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
Do you have a link or info to "Hitler: The Rise and Fall", it sounds like must see for a WWII buff. [:)]

And 'Gefreiter' could be translated into 'Lance corporal'.

Orm, if I may respectfully ask, according to whom?

Cut from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gefreiter

Throughout the periods of the Royal Prussian Army, Imperial Army of the German Empire, Reichswehr and the German Wehrmacht, the rank of Gefreiter was considered in English the equivalent to a British Army Lance Corporal rank

[warspite1]

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And 'Gefreiter' could be translated into 'Lance corporal'.

Orm, if I may respectfully ask, according to whom?

Cut from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gefreiter

Throughout the periods of the Royal Prussian Army, Imperial Army of the German Empire, Reichswehr and the German Wehrmacht, the rank of Gefreiter was considered in English the equivalent to a British Army Lance Corporal rank

warspite1

The program made clear he was not a corporal and thus NOT a non-commissioned officer. Is Gefreiter an NCO I wonder?

[Orm]

Never mind. I blame tiredness.

[Orm]

Regardless. If I understand it correctly. He was a regimental runner and thus he must have been reliable and brave. Otherwise they would have had him doing something else. I.E. a battalion runner.

[wings7]

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Orm, if I may respectfully ask, according to whom?

Cut from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gefreiter

Throughout the periods of the Royal Prussian Army, Imperial Army of the German Empire, Reichswehr and the German Wehrmacht, the rank of Gefreiter was considered in English the equivalent to a British Army Lance Corporal rank

warspite1

The program made clear he was not a corporal and thus NOT a non-commissioned officer. Is Gefreiter an NCO I wonder?

In the US Army a NCO is Sargent, grades E-5 thru E-9. A Corporal would be an E-4, not a NCO (unless they changed it).

[warspite1]

Okay - just watched that part again and it said:

Newly discovered regimental documents show:

Hitler was promoted early in the war to Private First Class and never got another promotion. His seniors did not see any leadership qualities in Hitler and he remained a Private and was not made an NCO.

Apparently his job was rarely delivering messages to the front line or running from trench to trench. He was considered by his comrades to have a cushy number.

He did finally get his Iron Cross late in the war for delivering a dispatch under fire.

Intriguingly the person who did take the French prisoners - that Hitler took the credit for - was his Jewish officer Hugo Guttman, whose name was later written out of the story.....

It was all Nazi propaganda apparently.

[Orm]

warspite1

The program made clear he was not a corporal and thus NOT a non-commissioned officer. Is Gefreiter an NCO I wonder?

Gefreiter is not a non-commissioned officer. Neither is a corporal. And I have never, ever, heard anyone claim that he was a NCO. So I do not understand why the program is making a point out of it. Are they trying to say that it is tricky to translate grades between countries before attempts were made to standardize them? And even trickier with historical grades?