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This series, produced at the propitious time following the events of the second World War, is on a scale of value that stands far above any individual's presumption to criticize it in any way.The timing of production in 1974, surrounding some three decades after the fact, permit both an accounting uncoloured by residual propaganda and slant, and the reinforcement of accounts by an impressive and fascinating panoply of the very individuals involved, from some of the highest military and political personnel to field soldiers, civilians, and such survivors of the death camps as have remained to bear witness to the unimaginable inhumanities that civilized humans are yet capable thereof.We hear and moreover see the postures and expressions born by those who were there and share with us the sometimes wrenchingly painful memory of those times. Such names as Ira Eaker, Adolph Galland, Louis Mountbatten, Albert Speer, Gertrude Junge (Hitler's personal secretary)... the list is too long to relate. Today, within the lifetime of the survivors of this enormous lesson in the hideous price of political ambition, are young people who chant the same sort of militaristic and nationalistic war promotion as led to WW2. The DVD series we discuss here ought to comprise the core of a mandatory history subject in schools, that the lessons bought at such a horrible cost in those days should not have been wasted but should be taken to heart by those who cannot remember.I am almost done watching the 11 disk set, having seen most of the series when a local TV channel aired it more than 10 years ago. It has lost none of its poignancy to me, indeed has become yet more a magnificent chronicle of some of the very darkest days of human times.The highest possible rating seems unworthy of being applied to this presentation.
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