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08-04-2008, 01:40 PM
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| Partisan   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Cheshire, England
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 | Actually, I think it is all the more terrible because of the fact that you have seen everyone behaving relatively 'normally', even Hitler in some moments, interspersed with his violent rages. Although the guy who played Goebbels seriously creeped me. I could have nightmares about him!
__________________  The Motherland, bent over her daughter's ashes, Sings this tender maternal song About Zoya, the girl, who has become a legend, Who died and was born for eternal life. Dimitri Shostakovich Song for Zoya (1944) The War in the East |
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08-04-2008, 02:20 PM
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| Ostfront is where its at!   Join Date: Apr 2004
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 But he is extremely creepy. Seemed a bit taller than his real life counterpart too!
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) | |
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08-04-2008, 08:32 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: By the mighty Don,no,not the Russian one :)
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| Whenever I want a war film with a happy ending.......  The one thing that worried me was,after watching that film I was under the impression that Mohnke the SS guy was an "alright sort of bloke" hhmmm,then read a bit and found he was a murderous perverted scumbag,ah well,the runes should have given that away..... (and I couldnt get past the guy who negotiated with the Russians,in Russian, played the insane randy President in that weird sci fi programe about a dead guy with purple hair..)
__________________ "I don't know a lot about anything - but I know a little about practically everything."  Vincent Price in "Laura" 1944.(avatar,the gorgeous Miss Gene Tierney Last edited by chipmunk wallah; 08-04-2008 at 08:34 PM. |
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09-04-2008, 09:19 PM
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| Angels one-five   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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| Thought it was a good solid film, well put together. The murder scene with the children is truly awful and shows the Nazis for who they were. Overall the film is very depressing with an insight to what those final days of madness must have been like.
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. We had a squadron commander who believed in the head-on attack. 'The next raid we go up to intercept, we will do a head-on attack,' he said. So he attacked an Me 110 head-on and I'm afraid Jerry got the better of him and all we found of him was his shirt! Flying Officer Harold Bird-Wilson, 17 Squadron.  |
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10-04-2008, 11:33 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: By the mighty Don,no,not the Russian one :)
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| "Seemed a bit taller than his real life counterpart too!" Wasnt just me that thought it odd that the "poison dwarf" was played by the tallest actor in europe then?
__________________ "I don't know a lot about anything - but I know a little about practically everything." Vincent Price in "Laura" 1944.(avatar,the gorgeous Miss Gene Tierney |
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20-04-2008, 08:49 PM
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| Angels one-five Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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| The SS doctor Ernest Gunther Schenck carried out experiments on prisoners in Concentration camps. In the film there was no hint of what a monster he must have been or SS-Brigadefuhrer Mohnke for that matter.
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. We had a squadron commander who believed in the head-on attack. 'The next raid we go up to intercept, we will do a head-on attack,' he said. So he attacked an Me 110 head-on and I'm afraid Jerry got the better of him and all we found of him was his shirt! Flying Officer Harold Bird-Wilson, 17 Squadron. |
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