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The wife and I were digging through old doccos uploaded to Youtube and stumbled across The Occult History of the Third Reich, which sounds for all the world like a History Channel "OMG THE NAZI GOLD!" type sensationalist pile of bs. Surprisingly enough though it's a pretty detailed look at the roots and practices of the more esoteric side of everyone's least favourite fascists, and how it all tied into their genocidal ideology. I was extremely impressed.
So brainrot re-engaged we started watching The World At War, and it's cool but I desire a non-Western perspective. I realise that a lot of countries in say, Eastern Europe might not have as much reason to fetishise past wars through documentary as the US and its military industrial complex, but I'd really like to see the second world war through other lenses. Soooo much of American and British WWII doccos are sooooo bad. Pull up the 1995 Battlefield series and it's all "dyk that Hitler was actually a big stinky dumbdumb and his generals were all very sexy nicebois who oversaw no crimes and could have totes legitsies taken Moscow and Kursk if not for that meddling Adolf??" type garbage.
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“The World at War” narrated by Laurence Olivier is still one of the best I can think of. Definitely some lib brained shit in there but they acknowledge the crucial role the Soviets played and go into great detail about a lot of the higher level political stuff. It’s from the 70s too so a lot of folks were still alive to be interviewed (for better or worse—seeing fuckers like Albert Speer and Traudl Junge still breathing is infuriating, but they also interview a lot of folks from the various resistance movements and Soviet veterans).
The Soviet episodes of this series were not bad honestly. One of the things I really respect about TWAW is how high-production-values are on show, and also that all the footage is in 4:3 and uncolourised, just the way it was GODDAMN FUCKIN MEANT TO BE