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Ken Burns' "The War."
Good stuff. As many times as I've seen documentaries about it, new material is always interesting.
I like the parts I've seen so far about the Latinos. I think the brew ha-ha on that was a bit overblown. Artists make art about what they know. One new bit of info I've gathered: I knew that Hitler was unhappy with the way WW1 and aftermath played out, I didn't realize that he despised groups within Germany -- socialists, communists, and Jews -- because he blamed them for stabbing German troops in the back during the first war. Oh man, it's that old deja vu all over again. Lessee, the first war is lost but rather than consider that some great moral failing or ill conceived nature of the war was the problem, instead the blame falls on those who didn't share the passion to fight it fully. Followed by a second war, where the aggrieved parties of the first war, determined to get the bad taste of the first war our of their mouths, REALLY muck things up badly with the nation falling hard on its face in the process. If only Hitler and crew hadn't been so obsessed with their supremacy. I don't guess that could ever happen again.
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