Nazi Vengance

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by adamcotton, Mar 31, 2015.

  1. adamcotton

    adamcotton Senior Member

    Greetings one and all....

    I watched a low budget, cinematic debacle the night before last: ropey acting from an unknown cast (with one notable exception), and a plot centered around a reincarnated Nazi commando, with the story unfolding and filmed on location in the Sussex villages of Plumpton, Southease, and Jevington.

    So, a present day Argus journalist (it's my local paper, so I read it often) is being troubled by violent, abstract images in his dreams. Therefore, he enlists the help of a past-life regression therapist to uncover the root cause, and, whilst in a trance induced by her, begins to discover the horrifying reality of war crimes he committed as the officer commanding a raiding party on the Sussex coast in the weeks immediately preceding the planned 1940 invasion of southern England. These involve the murder of women and babies with sharp knives, the idea being to unsettle the local population with random acts of terror ahead of the invasion - because it would undermine their resolve to resist whence the Wehrmacht juggernaut arrived!

    I won't write much more on the subsequent actions and fate of the characters, except to say there are some quite nauseating scenes of torture (and slow death) involving the use of an acetylene welding torch wielded by a still living, burns disfigured Battle of Britain fighter pilot in league with the devil (yes, I know - I did say it was a cinematic debacle)!

    But, aside from the basic crapiness of the film, is the validity of its historical premise. Let's assume for a moment that the Germans were somehow able to get a sizeable raiding party undetected onto the Sussex weald in early summer 1940: would acts or random violence have unsettled the civilian population sufficiently to undermine their will to resist, or would it merely have put more steel in their hearts?
     
  2. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    I think more steel in their hearts.
     
  3. Bernard85

    Bernard85 WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    good day adamcotton.sm.yesterday.08:45,pm.re:nazi vengance,i agree with dave55,very senior member. #2 have a good day.regards bernard85.
     

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