I'm not a huge WW2 enthusiast, actually until recent years I'd found it rather boring. You can blame monotone school history lessons for that. However I now start to actually engage and get interested in that horrible period of our history to learn more.
So I'll just go with the pros and cons of this mini series.
The pros:
Whatever method they used to do cleverly colourise the old footage is remarkable, it's truly amazing and does really break down the disconnect you get from black and white.
The variety of different nationality commentators is also really nice to give slightly different perspectives.
I really enjoyed the approach of looking at it from the common Germans persons perspective, and what they saw and thought, how they voted etc. It was refreshing to hear that they weren't all somehow complicit, and how ultimately they were slowly strongarmed into saying nothing.
The cons:
This is clearly politically driven. I'm not sure how many times they said 'make Germany great again', but it was enough times to make me, a Brit, think "wow, that's a bit on the nose". I've no dog in that race but I found that a very thoughtlessly glib comparison to make regardless of what side youre on. So it lost a whole lot of intellectual integrity for me.
The dramatisations are actually awful, and totally un-needed. A lot of the time the dramatisations of the trials are still voiced by the criminal, but slow mo reenactments, even when there are actual videos? It makes no sense. Still pictures would have been better if the reel was damaged. It cheapens it, and cheapening this when diving into the holocaust is just distasteful.
I guess this one is a bit 50/50 if you'd like it or not. Worth giving the first episode a go tho and find out for yourself.
So I'll just go with the pros and cons of this mini series.
The pros:
Whatever method they used to do cleverly colourise the old footage is remarkable, it's truly amazing and does really break down the disconnect you get from black and white.
The variety of different nationality commentators is also really nice to give slightly different perspectives.
I really enjoyed the approach of looking at it from the common Germans persons perspective, and what they saw and thought, how they voted etc. It was refreshing to hear that they weren't all somehow complicit, and how ultimately they were slowly strongarmed into saying nothing.
The cons:
This is clearly politically driven. I'm not sure how many times they said 'make Germany great again', but it was enough times to make me, a Brit, think "wow, that's a bit on the nose". I've no dog in that race but I found that a very thoughtlessly glib comparison to make regardless of what side youre on. So it lost a whole lot of intellectual integrity for me.
The dramatisations are actually awful, and totally un-needed. A lot of the time the dramatisations of the trials are still voiced by the criminal, but slow mo reenactments, even when there are actual videos? It makes no sense. Still pictures would have been better if the reel was damaged. It cheapens it, and cheapening this when diving into the holocaust is just distasteful.
I guess this one is a bit 50/50 if you'd like it or not. Worth giving the first episode a go tho and find out for yourself.
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