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vanity - movie 9th Company | 4-5-2011 | Mr.Invisible

[oh8eleven]

The Bridge - hard to find ... Hitler Jugend are sent to hold a bridge against the oncoming Russians.
Probably based on a real event:

"At the Havel River in Berlin, five thousand Hitler Youth were ordered to defend the Pichelsdorf Bridge.
The HJ held the bridge for two days and nights against Russian tanks until 4,500 of them lay dead or wounded."

[oh8eleven]

“Das Boot”, “Letters from Iwo Jima”
My dad was a WWII Marine, I was a VN Marine.
I had no trouble watching Das Boot, but had to force myself to watch Letters from IJ.
Good flick, but it was still very emotional and uncomfortable for me.

[Nailbiter]

bflr

[Jmouse007]

"Come and See" is available on Youtube and can be viewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nlEB_lACqs&feature=related

History that must be remembered, lest it be repeted.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Thanks for posting. Was unaware of this one.

[Gena Bukin]

Thanks. Just added it to my queue.

[Moltke]

I once tried watching "Men Behind the Sun", a 1988 film about the Japanese performing biological weapons experiments on Chinese and Russian prisoners. As I said, "tried". I do not recommend it.

IMDB

[rlmorel]

Thank you for serving. Very much.

I don’t have a problem with someone in your situation feeling that way, not at all. I just think it is odd that someone who has never experienced combat would have trouble viewing it.

If I watch something like that, I don’t accept the point of view they offer, but use that to get an idea of what people in Japan or Germany might see as the point of view.

I personally knew one man whose job it was to coordinate the removal of Japanese forces from Korea upon the end of hostilities in WWII. He was in his eighties when I met him. I noticed a significant behavior change whenever the subject of Japan came up, and I asked one of his friends why he showed so much hostility, and he told me that his friend had confided in him some of the things he had seen the Japanese were responsible for (first hand) and could not reconcile them. He would not even talk to me about it, but he didn’t have to. Whatever he had seen still showed clearly on his face fifty years after the fact (this was in the nineties)

I can understand that.

[oh8eleven]

the removal of Japanese forces from Korea upon the end of hostilities in WWII.
The Japanese have a very long history of abusing Koreans.
Before going to Tokyo for work ten years ago, I was instructed about customs, etc., and told never to bring up the subject of Korea.

[Enterprise]

Thank you. I ordered it from Amazon and now I want to wait to see it uninterrupted.

There was something on the History Channel, I think, and interviews were done with some of the witnesses who were there when men, women, and children were being shot at point blank range. Our own courageous film makers don't dare tell all the truth about Nazism, Communism, the Jihadists, and the Mexican drug cartels. If they are not openly against the atrocities, then they must be in approval of them.

[rlmorel]

I have to admit, the Japanese have always fascinated me. I lived there for several years when I was a kid, and I loved it. It was like living on another planet. I have heard it said somewhere else by someone else, that they could never quite reconcile their incredible capacity to appreciate sensitivity and beauty with their seemingly bottomless capacity for cruelty.

That always kind of summed up how I felt. Complex people.

[kronos77]

True!
One of the best war movies ever.

This one is better :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJCUNZbQvjY