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Fänrik Stål -> RE: OT: The Longest Day Movie. (6/2/2012 11:45:04 PM)
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The Germans were good Christians like pretty much everyone else in Europe at that time. Hitler invoked both God and Jesus in his speeches many times. Whether this translates to a belief in God or if it was simply cynical manipulation of the masses, is hard to know. He never officially renounced Catholicism AFAIK. In the late stages of the war it seems certain he believed in a "divine providence" which would save Germany at the crucial moment, just as he believed his hero Frederick the Great had been saved during the Seven Years war, when the future of Prussia seemed as bleak as that of Germany in '44-'45. As for wanting to "deal with the church" it's my understanding that the plan was to replace it with a warped form of Christianity, more in line with the Nazi ideology and of course totally subservient to the Nazi state. It's clear that Hitler and Himmler had very different ideas about these issues. Himmler favoured a return to pagan beliefs akin to old Norse and Germanic religions.
What happened after Hitler awoke from his nap? I don't remember exactly, but he kept insisting the main landing would take place in the Calais area for some time, and refused to release the troops stationed there for use in Normandy.
As for portraying the Germans as they were, I don't know. Probably fairly realistic though. It's one of the better war movies about WW2 I've seen.
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