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the anti-German storyline is historically inaccurate

posted 13 years ago by echoecho69
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I mean, seriously. France under the occupation of Germany was in no way as bad as episode 3 intends to depict it as. Girls all over France were flirting with German officers and soldiers. The occupation was largely peaceful. The resistance/terrorists had much less power and support compared to the insurgents in Iraq and Talibans in Afganistan.

The situation in France was in fact, better than the current situation of Iraq and Afghanistan. There were no suicidal bombings, and no large-scale guerilla warfare or insurgence until the Allied invasion in 1944. The Allies killed more French people than the Nazis, how many people know this fact? Very few. The British in 1940 killed 1300 French sailors, called Operation Catapult. And don't even get started on the bombings in France during 1944.

People are just ignorant. The producer made up a story and they all believe it. I am no Nazi but this anti-German plot is just ridiculous, unneeded, and totally historically inaccurate.

[–] joli1921 11 years ago

First of all: the episode was not anti-German! The Germans of 1963 were depicted as very nice and welcoming people. Depicting the Germans of the 1940s as not-so-nice people is perfectly normal and logical! They were Nazis!
Second of all: please read a book some time! The story was neither historically inaccurate nor concocted: it happened to a lot of families all over Europe!
The occupation was in no way, form or manner peaceful! It was outright brutal!
For every German soldier killed during occupation by a Resistance fighter, the Nazis killed several French. It was called "collective punishment".
An estimated 30.000 French civilians were killed during the occupation as collective punishment for Resitance activity. Does that sound peaceful to you?
And you might want to read up on Oradour-sur-Glane...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane
Then, after having educated yourself, you will maybe stop posting such stupid and dangerous posts!

For crying out loud "would of", "should of", "could of" do NOT exist!