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Winter on the Eastern Front! Film - 2/18/2011 5:26:16 PM

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Interesting propoganda piece......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsPqxUz-Ynk

I'm sure it was EXACTLY like that on the Eastern Front!

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RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film - 2/18/2011 6:14:53 PM

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Where are the hot spring baths? I mean whats life at the front in winter without hot spring baths? Please pass the Schnaps!

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RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film - 2/18/2011 6:25:34 PM

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There are numerous kinds of visual propaganda, but the propaganda for home use tends to be of the "show a few happy things, don't show the rest"/"don't lie about the things you show, but don't tell anything about the rest" or "keep telling a lie until it becomes the truth" type.

In this case, I don't doubt that Christmas in Lappland (mostly stationary front in 1942, staring contest and firing phosphor rounds at the enemy in the summer) or the Caucasus mountain tops (AG A was still hanging around in the Caucasus as Wintergewitter had not failed yet by the time the footage was taken, the Gebirgsjaeger had also been fairly stationary for a prolonged period) could've been like that. What they don't show is Christmas in Stalingrad.

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RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film - 2/18/2011 7:11:09 PM

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Leisure time being used to make crafts......

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RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film - 2/18/2011 11:52:46 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

Interesting propoganda piece......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsPqxUz-Ynk

I'm sure it was EXACTLY like that on the Eastern Front!

+1. So much for WitE's so called attempt at realism. Blizzard effects my #rs@
I want my money back from Matrix.

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RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film - 2/19/2011 12:05:43 AM

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Love those German Newsreels. The contrast between the efficency and backwardness of the German war machine is striking though I'm sure unintentional. The clip were they are reeling in a truck with rope to try and lure allied fighters into a flak trap in one of the 44 clips is hilarious. If I seen that I dont think it would have raised my morale.

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RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film - 2/19/2011 3:37:26 AM

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I like the June Cleaver music.

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RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film - 2/19/2011 9:35:54 AM

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When they fell of the sled at the outset, I think that basically summed up the German attack in Russia - off to a grand start, followed by a collapse in the snow!

I was also struck by the way that TV news has gone 180 degrees since then - from only reporting the positives bits to only reporting the negative bits. Was there a time in the middle when we got the whole story? Maybe for 6 months around 1960?

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RE: Winter on the Eastern Front! Film - 2/19/2011 10:09:16 AM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKem7z9RDPs

here is a nice movie about german behaviour in 1941 see the schlamm period in action, truly frightening

fishing with handgrenad in october

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3up67KLllRw

and here typhoon

This rather a man point of view of the war. I don't understand german's comment, but this movie is giving a filling of vatness.

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