Yes , the nineties German made film Stalingrad comes to mind , gritty film .And of course Das Boot .What did you think of Fury with Brad Pitt about the Sherman tank crew , not too bad apart from the overdone ending.
I liked Fury, One thing to me that came across was the winter of early 1945 everyone was tired of the war, It was gritty and coming into Germany there was the senseless death of thousands which was so unnessacary as the Germans were fighting a lost cause and that the poor German citizen, Young and old were forced to do their bit. Also being in a tank was not much fun either!
You and me both.Yep, The All Creatures we like too but TBH there is very little we like together, She'll watch a drama about something or other and i roll my eyes and either put the laptop on or go to the other room with a TV in it, I'm amazed we're still together after over 30 years!
Tanks , on that subject , we were invited to Berlin for two weeks just after the Wall came down and the aunt of our friend took us out for the day.Part of the tour involved seeing burnt out wrecks of tanks which were still around in odd places.Her late husband was in the SS , she said he had been drafted in under duress because he was very tall with fair hair Hitler’s idea of the ideal German! He had a bad nervous breakdown after the war because of things he’d been made to do . On the theme of Stalingrad I‘ m just reading the book on which Enemy at the Gates was based.Hundred of thousands killed there alone , makes C19 seem like a nothing.
It does, Apparently one person every 13 seconds was killed during that battle, Not sure if that is true but the amount of deaths were staggering!
Well , when you think the Germans alone lost the bulk of their Sixth Army under Paulus Including Italians , Hungarians and Romanians with I think around 800 thousand deadI can believe it.
And out of the 90,000+ that surrended, Only 5,000 made it home, Some 10-12 years later.
