In this case I guess it's once everyone who actually fought in a war is dead, then Hollywood can make up whatever nonsense they want. American self hatred is so evident in this movie that I don't know how anyone could miss it. Made during the Obama years which included his world apology tour, it makes American soldiers look like Mafia thugs. That is pretty ironic since part of Nazi propaganda was that, if fact, American soldiers really were Mafia thugs. I was rooting for the Germans.
The reality is that any tank crew that behaved like this would have been immediately removed from the unit and the tank commander would have been subject to a court martial. I have read dozens of memoirs written by WW2 tank crews, American, British, Canadian, Russian and German. None of them resemble anything like this. The truth is tank crews were less likely to be brutalized because they rarely even saw the enemy. Everything was distant and remote outside their steel shell. They probably never saw the round that killed them or where it came from. Infantry soldiers sometimes became like this and were removed from their units as soon as an officer became aware of it. They were bad for morale and dangerous to their comrades.
I know that people who don't pay much attention to history will buy into this dark fantasy. It makes me very sad and honestly it's an insult to the many veterans who fought in the war with honor and didn't lose their souls.
The reality is that any tank crew that behaved like this would have been immediately removed from the unit and the tank commander would have been subject to a court martial. I have read dozens of memoirs written by WW2 tank crews, American, British, Canadian, Russian and German. None of them resemble anything like this. The truth is tank crews were less likely to be brutalized because they rarely even saw the enemy. Everything was distant and remote outside their steel shell. They probably never saw the round that killed them or where it came from. Infantry soldiers sometimes became like this and were removed from their units as soon as an officer became aware of it. They were bad for morale and dangerous to their comrades.
I know that people who don't pay much attention to history will buy into this dark fantasy. It makes me very sad and honestly it's an insult to the many veterans who fought in the war with honor and didn't lose their souls.
