So You're Interested in the World Wars?

güttsfükk · #1 07-05-2009, 01:13 PM

Got an interest in WWI or WWII? here we've got a comprehensive listing of posts packed full of information, video clips and photographs.

Click Here For Our List of WWI & WWII Documentaries
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this list will be constantly growing.

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güttsfükk · #2 07-05-2009, 01:14 PM

güttsfükk · #3 07-05-2009, 01:15 PM

10 part series about World War 1

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...ll-arms-21792/
The complex origins of the Great War, and how seemingly insignificant local tensions in the Balkans exploded into World War.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...r-eagle-21961/
The German invasion of Belgium and France was brutal and atrocities fanned the flames of war.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...bal-war-21942/
The European empires clashed all across the world, from the South Atlantic Seas to the planes of Africa.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...4-jihad-21989/
The Turkish Ottoman Empire proved a formidable foe, as the Allies found to their cost at Gallipoli and in the Middle East.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...-corpse-21999/
As the Germans and Austrians clashed with The Russians on the bitter Eastern Front, Italy became embroiled in a terrible slaughter.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...eadlock-22001/
The Somme and Verdun saw carnage on an unprecedented scale, as armies fought to break the stalemate on the Western Front.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...lockade-22024/
The war at sea was every bit as bitter as the war on land. The battle at Jutland proved inconclusive but the U-Boat menace threatened Britain as never before. Meanwhile, America entered the war.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...olution-22039/
The effect of the Great War shattered nations, inspired mass mutinies by desperate troops, caused great upheaval on the home front and changed the world forever.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...-gamble-22040/
Over one million German troops were committed to Kaiserschlacht - the last great offensive of the war - while conflict still raged on many other fronts.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...out-end-22041/
The dramatic Allied victory at Amiens led to victory in just 100 days - and the signing of a bitterly-resented peace, while other nations stumbled towards their own ceasefire agreements.

12 part series about Hitler's Right Hand Men

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...minator-21793/
His assignment was to murder all the Jews in Europe. He joined the Nazi party as a young man and quickly rose through the ranks. When Hitler came to power, he was put into the department for "Jewish affairs." In Austria, Eichmann brought together all the bureaucratic agencies needed for Jewish expulsion. He did the same in Czechoslovakia.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...utioner-21794/
Heinrich Himmler was born October 7, 1900, as the son of a secondary school instructor and strict Roman Catholic who lived in Luneberg, Germany. By the end of World War I, Himmler had completed secondary school instruction at a school in Landshut and went on to receive a diploma in agriculture from the Munich Technical High School in 1922. Turning 18 when Germany was at an all time low following World War I, Himmler despised the Weimar Republic, expressed hatred for anyone who was anti-Germany, and joined militant right-wing organizations.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...rebrand-21796/
Master propagandist of the Nazi regime and dictator of its cultural life for twelve years.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...and-boy-21797/
Joachim von Ribbentrop , 1893-1946, German foreign minister (1938-45). After World War I he became a wealthy champagne merchant. He joined the National Socialist party in 1932 and impressed Adolf Hitler with his knowledge of foreign languages and countries; he soon became Hitler's foreign policy expert and set up his own office on foreign affairs, which often superseded the foreign office.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...r-youth-21798/
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (May 9, 1907 – August 8, 1974) was a Nazi youth leader later convicted of being a war criminal. Schirach was the head of the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter ("Reich Governor") of Vienna.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...dow-man-21813/
Bormann joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) in 1927. Without any obvious talents he rose steadily in the Nazi hierarchy. He became party treasurer after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 he appointed Bormann as national organizer of the party.

In 1942 Bormann became Hitler's secretary and was given the post of deputy fuehrer. Bormann controlled all the papers Hitler saw and in this way he had a growing influence on government policy. He also sometimes blocked Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler and Albert Speer from seeing Hitler. Rarely leaving headquarters his judgements were invariably wrong during the final stages of the war.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...ccessor-21880/
Karl Dönitz (16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980) was a German naval Commander who served in the Imperial German Navy during World War I, and during World War II commanded first the German submarine fleet, and then the entire German Navy (Kriegsmarine).

In the final days of the war, Dönitz was named by Adolf Hitler as his successor, and after the Führer killed himself, the admiral assumed the office of President (Reichspräsident) of Nazi Germany. He held this position for about 20 days, until the final surrender to the Allies.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...-deputy-21890/
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (26 April, 1894 – 17 August, 1987) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler's Deputy in the Nazi Party. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom, but instead was arrested. He was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to life in prison at Spandau Prison, Berlin, where he comitted suicide in 1987 at age 92.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...g-judge-21903/
Roland Freisler (October 30, 1893 - February 3, 1945) was a prominent Nazi. He became State Secretary at the Reich Ministry of Justice and President of the Volksgerichtshof.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...chitect-21911/
Albert Speer was the architect who served Adolf Hitler with devotion and efficiency, starting with his enthusiastic crafting of Nazi rallies and going on to become the organisational genius whose efforts are credited - if that is the word to use - with keeping the German war machine functioning under the onslaught of the Allied blockade and bombardment. He is said to have prolonged the war for at least a year, with the consequent death of hundreds of thousands and widespread ruin. It also gave the Nazis more time to pursue their mass murder of Jews, Russians, Gypsies and others deemed not fit to live.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...marshal-21917/
Hermann Goering, Successor designate No. 1 to Hitler; Reich Minister for Air; President of the Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich; member of the Secret Cabinet Council; Reich Forest Master; Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force; Prime Minister of Prussia; President of the Prussian State Council; President of the Reichstag; Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan; Head of the "Reichswerke Hermann Goering"; Reichsmarschall; SS Obergruppenfuehrer; SA- Obergruppenfuehrer.

More War Documentaries

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...bc-film-21766/
The Great War is a CBC television film documenting Canadian participation in the First World War. The film stars Justin Trudeau and was shown on Canadian television during the 90th Anniversary of the Vimy Ridge battle, airing in two parts on April 8 and April 9, 2007.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...inferno-19543/
The Second Battle of Ypres was the first time Germany used poison gas on a large scale on the Western Front in World War I and the first time a former colonial force (Canadians) pushed back a major European power (Germans) on European soil, which occurred in the battle of St. Julien-Kitcheners' Wood.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...ghtmare-19540/
The Battle of Verdun was one of the critical battles during World War I on the Western Front. It was fought between the German and French armies, from 21 February to 15 December 1916....

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...e-somme-20074/ - scroll down for documentary
The Battle of the Somme started in July 1st 1916. It lasted until November 1916. For many people, the Battle of the Somme was the battle that symbolised the horrors of warfare in World War One; this one battle had a marked effect on overall casualty figures and seemed to epitomise the futility of trench warfare.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...-1944-a-19956/
Original training film of the OKH (High Command of the Army) from 1944. In this film were shown as current techniques he Allied for their own training was beneficial.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...mentary-19385/
This important documentary uses only primary materials, footage and photographs shot by the Nazis themselves, and the narrator was a survivor of the ghetto. Look especially for the scenes were the Nazis find the kid with the smuggled food and the Jewish Police beating their own people. Powerful stuff.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...da-film-13732/
German Propaganda Film, the ending when he drives away, there are just so many damn people there

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...r-death-19949/
Josef Mengele was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He gained notoriety for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced laborer, and for performing human experiments on camp inmates, amongst whom Mengele was known as the Angel of Death.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...ffen-ss-19953/
The Waffen-SS (German for "Armed SS", literally "Weapons SS") was the combat arm of the Schutzstaffel ("Protective Squadron") or SS, an organ of the Nazi Party. The Waffen-SS saw action throughout World War II and grew from three regiments to a force of over 38 divisions, which served alongside the regular army, but was never formally part of the Wehrmacht. It was Adolf Hitler's will that the Waffen-SS never be integrated into the Army:

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...h-will-112316/
post 1 : This is a video of Rudolph Hess introducing the Horst Wessel lied at the Nuremberg Rally 1934. The Horst Wessel Lied was what the Nazis used as the German National Anthem from 1934 to 1945

post 2 : Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a propaganda film made by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. The film contains excerpts from speeches given by various Nazi leaders at the Congress, including portions of speeches by Adolf Hitler, interspersed with footage of massed party members. Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles. The overriding theme of the film is the return of Germany as a great power, with Hitler as the True German Leader who will bring glory to the nation.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...-1960-a-15011/
"Mein Kampf" presents the rise and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Poland and the life Hitler, which is told since he was a mediocre student and frustrated aspirant of artist living in slums in Austria and Germany, until his suicide in 1945 after being the responsible for the death of million of people, and the destruction of Europe. All the footage is real and belonged to a secret file of Goebbels, inclusive with many very strong scenes filmed by Goebbels himself.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...-2000-a-21234/
The Nazi party grew out of several occult groups that sprung up in the late 19th century as a reaction to the advanced materialism and technology of the era. These groups spoke of the coming of a new Messiah that would save Germany. Young Adolf Hitler developed the notion that perhaps he was the chosen one to save the German people.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...-1998-a-21789/

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...-2006-a-21782/
A piece of amateur film captures three men dressed in informal suits, chatting pleasantly in the summer sunshine of an alpine terrace. One complains light-heartedly about the volume of work he has to get through. The other two smile sympathetically. The scene is timeless and benign.
Or is it? The tableau takes on a more sinister quality when we learn that the sun terrace is part of the Berghof – German fascist dictator Adolf Hitler’s mountain retreat.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...l-death-21685/
Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal tracks infamous war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele to his hiding place in Paraguay. Original broadcast: 1 February 1979.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...plunder-21683/
Pursues the rumor of Nazi plunder worth billions and a 30-year old track that could lead to it. Original broadcast: 29 May 1977.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...vidence-21775/
Did the Allies know more than they liked to admit about the Nazi factories of death? Could they have done more to stop the horrors?

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...y-japan-37019/
Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...y-knife-60017/
The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of many of the Japanese doctors from Unit 731. The facts are told, and previously unknown evidence is revealed by an eyewitness to these events, former doctor and military translator, Anatoly Protasov. Part documentary and part feature, the story is shown from the perspective of a young Japanese nurse who witnessed many of horrors, and a young Japanese officer who is torn between his sincere convictions that he is serving the greater purpose, and the deep sympathy he feels for an imprisoned Russian girl. His life is a living hell as he's compelled to carry out atrocious experiments on the other prisoners, using them as guinea pigs in this shocking tale of mankind's barbarity. "Philosophy of a Knife" is truly one of the most violent, brutal and harrowing movies ever made.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...-1958-a-79949/
1950's television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler's sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with Hitler, actual footage shot by the Nazi's and Eva Braun's rare home movies.

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...footage-99298/
As the film's history shows, it was a project that was supervised by the British Ministry of Information and the American Office of War Information. And during that summer of 1945 some of the documentary editing was done under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock.

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