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Winter on the Eastern Front! Film
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:26 pm
by Q-Ball
Interesting propoganda piece......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsPqxUz-Ynk
I'm sure it was EXACTLY like that on the Eastern Front!
RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:14 pm
by ool
Where are the hot spring baths? I mean whats life at the front in winter without hot spring baths? Please pass the Schnaps!
RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:25 pm
by ComradeP
There are numerous kinds of visual propaganda, but the propaganda for home use tends to be of the "show a few happy things, don't show the rest"/"don't lie about the things you show, but don't tell anything about the rest" or "keep telling a lie until it becomes the truth" type.
In this case, I don't doubt that Christmas in Lappland (mostly stationary front in 1942, staring contest and firing phosphor rounds at the enemy in the summer) or the Caucasus mountain tops (AG A was still hanging around in the Caucasus as Wintergewitter had not failed yet by the time the footage was taken, the Gebirgsjaeger had also been fairly stationary for a prolonged period) could've been like that. What they don't show is Christmas in Stalingrad.
RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 5:11 pm
by randallw
Leisure time being used to make crafts......
RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:52 pm
by sillyflower
+1. So much for WitE's so called attempt at realism. Blizzard effects my #rs@
I want my money back from Matrix.
RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:05 pm
by Smirfy
Love those German Newsreels. The contrast between the efficency and backwardness of the German war machine is striking though I'm sure unintentional. The clip were they are reeling in a truck with rope to try and lure allied fighters into a flak trap in one of the 44 clips is hilarious. If I seen that I dont think it would have raised my morale.[:D]
RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:37 am
by Panama
I like the June Cleaver music.
RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:35 am
by Redmarkus5
When they fell of the sled at the outset, I think that basically summed up the German attack in Russia - off to a grand start, followed by a collapse in the snow!
I was also struck by the way that TV news has gone 180 degrees since then - from only reporting the positives bits to only reporting the negative bits. Was there a time in the middle when we got the whole story? Maybe for 6 months around 1960?
RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:09 am
by Aragorn69
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKem7z9RDPs
here is a nice movie about german behaviour in 1941 see the schlamm period in action, truly frightening
fishing with handgrenad in october
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3up67KLllRw
and here typhoon
This rather a man point of view of the war. I don't understand german's comment, but this movie is giving a filling of vatness.
regards