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A good way to celebrate VE Day would be to do what I did last VE Day. Watch Downfall. It's pretty fucking amazing. Most of the movie is taken from the diary of Traudl Junge, Hitler's personal secretary and one of the few people (very few) who survived those last days in the bunker. The film ends with Traudl Junge now, giving a few last thoughts not only on that last week in April and first week of May in 1945, but on her connection to the Nazi party and to her old boss.
Bruno Ganz does an amazing job as Hitler. Ganz is a major actor in Germany and France. In America he'd most be known for roles in Faraway, so close! (Wim Wenders) and Werner Herzog completely over the top remake of Nosferatu. Also he was in Boys from Brazil. My all time favorite nazi cloning movie set in South America.
On a personal note: Near the Reichstag in Berlin there is the Russian War Memorial, built even before the last of the nazi's had been rounded up. On this massive structure are the names of every Russian officer killed in the taking of Berlin. It's amazing to read the dates. May 4th, 1945 was a bad day to be in the Russian army. Also the ranks. Almost everyone is a General. First you think, 'wow, a lot of Generals died." Then you realize that people were dying so quickly that they kept promoting people up to general.
I wonder is my bother has any thoughts about this... Chris?
A good way to celebrate VE Day would be to do what I did last VE Day. Watch Downfall. It's pretty fucking amazing. Most of the movie is taken from the diary of Traudl Junge, Hitler's personal secretary and one of the few people (very few) who survived those last days in the bunker. The film ends with Traudl Junge now, giving a few last thoughts not only on that last week in April and first week of May in 1945, but on her connection to the Nazi party and to her old boss.
Bruno Ganz does an amazing job as Hitler. Ganz is a major actor in Germany and France. In America he'd most be known for roles in Faraway, so close! (Wim Wenders) and Werner Herzog completely over the top remake of Nosferatu. Also he was in Boys from Brazil. My all time favorite nazi cloning movie set in South America.
On a personal note: Near the Reichstag in Berlin there is the Russian War Memorial, built even before the last of the nazi's had been rounded up. On this massive structure are the names of every Russian officer killed in the taking of Berlin. It's amazing to read the dates. May 4th, 1945 was a bad day to be in the Russian army. Also the ranks. Almost everyone is a General. First you think, 'wow, a lot of Generals died." Then you realize that people were dying so quickly that they kept promoting people up to general.
I wonder is my bother has any thoughts about this... Chris?
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Well two things have always struck me about the fighting on the eastern front during world war two. One is obviously the scale and brutality of the fighting there. The loss of life on both sides was truly staggering. The second has been the ignorance or maybe its the non-acknowledment of the importance of the Societ contribution to the war effort. As anyone who has read anything about world war II knows the Soviets overwhelmingly bore the brunt of the German war machine. Russian casualties during the war, estimated by some at more that 25 million, are almost incomprehensible. They lost probably close to a quarter of their entire population. During the relatively brief 2 week battle for Berlin alone the Soviets lost (wounded, KIA and MIA) over 300,000 military personnel. To put that in perspective the American casualty count during the entire war (across two spheres of comabt and 4 years of continous fighting) was only 250,000. As the Nazis marched confidently on Moscow the Russians actually formed trained battlaions whose only purpose was to detonate themselves, along with the belt of grenades that they carried (this was all they carried), underneath advancing enemy Gernan tank treads - an ultimate sacrifice for the motherland. Without looking up facts and relying strictly on my spotty memory, i recall that something on the order of 90 percent of German Wehrmacht strength was concentrated against the Red Army. This did not shift as the Amercans finally launched their invasion of France. The Germans were much more concerned with the rapid Russian advance across Eastern Europe. That the Russians would have won without us is unquestionable. By as early as late 1943 the Russians had turned back the Nazi tide. How many more millions of Russian deaths it would have taken is the only question truly up for debate. This is in no way meant to detract from the bravery or sacrifice of the American force, nor is it meant to dimish the debatably brilliant miitary planning and execution of the American top brass. The bloody fighting in the Ardeness and the speed and might of the German "bulge" offensive saw some of the most brutal comabt in the war... this just dont compare with the magnitude of the tank battle at Kursk or the seiges of Leningrad and Stalingrad.
But yeah I wouldnt want to be a Russian general on May 4th. What was the average lifespan for one of those guys...twenty minutes maybe? That would have been a great time to take a sick day.
Hey sonny - Your Grandfather's brother was in Berlin on May 9th 1945 and don't you forget it. Thanks Chris.
Ladies and gentlemen, this has been another installment of Art School Vs. Ivy League!!
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did you read that profile on herzog in the new yorker? sick. this guy is a maniac. (i love him)
Yes I did - and yes, he is a fucking maniac.
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