War and Remembrance

WW2: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QraNOxqDztQ

 

Roots. The Thorn Birds. V. The Winds of War. The North and the South. From Here to Eternity. The Day After. Masada. 

i mean what about the war truman is a nobody i mean it's it's a nightmare it's costly

hack said he left some booze here yes he did lots you know what

let's just have a good stiff drink of scotch dear [Music]

then i just think i'll go home [Music]

franklin delano roosevelt is dead a nation and the whole of the free world

is plunged into mourning perhaps the most apt tribute will be

paid by the men who fought the great crusade under his leadership veterans of mata casino the salomon slot

the bulge midway and iwo jima

they will say he was the commander-in-chief not only of our armed forces but of our

whole

generation [Music]

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ready as the american president is laid to rest winston churchill rises in parliament

what an enviable death was his he had brought his country through the

worst of its perils and the heaviest of its toils victory

that cast and steady beam upon him in the days of peace

he had broadened and stabilized the foundations of american life and

union in war he had raised the strength the might and glory of the great

republic to a heights never attained by any nation in history [Music]

nine days later april 22 1945 the red army including elements of the

first polish division smashes through the outer defenses of berlin by 2pm the german capital is all but so

run and adolf hitler the german warlord who once bestowed europe from the atlantic

to the volga has now been reduced to plotting grand strategies to relieve the beleaguered capital with

divisions tank brigades even whole armies that exist only in his fevered

imagination

what is going on we have been trying to reach the steiner

army since yesterday my patience is not limitless telephone lines my viewer they keep

breaking down if i do not hear from steiner within 15 minutes somebody will be

shocked lieutenant general hans krebs adolf hitler's latest chief of the

general staff [Music]

unfortunately i feel her it has been confirmed what

has there can be no steiner attack

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stay [Music]

the ancients i shall kill my child my decision is

there every pepper do not even say this word betrayed double cross

deceived surrounded by

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the war is lost last last last stupid incompetent

swine so treated me

lies corruption everybody is against me

[Music] if you lose faith then indeed all is

lost bowman smite

however it is not too late [Music] if you will go immediately to basket

from the alpine red out you can direct the final defense of our country

no those who wish to go south may

do so i shall remain here in berlin

and when the time comes [Music]

i shall shoot myself

my deception is irreplicable sure if we go

if you don't have your leadership staff with you can you direct the war from here

caring will take over command down there and fewer

no soldier will fight for the right

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to be done [Music]

april 25th 1945 at the town of torgau on the elba river

the russians and the americans meeted last in the heart of germany

[Music]

so and finally the last of the nazi death

camps are overrun dachau

saxonhausen [Music]

flossenburg bergen-belsen

mouthhausen

ravensbruck [Music]

[Applause] [Music] northhausen [Music]

but to the end the germans continue to try to destroy the evidence of their

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crimes the hell is this sergeant

take a squad and check it out yes sir darling come on with me yes sir

Kelly, grab your man [Music]

put two on the engine and have two on the other side okay so you two get on the engine you two on

the other side of the train

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you smell that let's get this thing open

[Music] oh my god

let's see if these other cars have any people in them i'll get you up in there and i want to check them out

[Music]

sergeant look at this

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my god, they've reached the tear garden and i've seen artillery fire from positions along the river spray

yes until we are squarely in the middle, as is our underground warrior

but in heaven's names, why have i been sent before?

why does he do anything i gather in some sort of new assignment

anyway arun i'm glad you are here press obscenities badly needed

these papers has been burning everything since the gearing and hindler betrayals

betrayals you didn't know no i have been with dernitz at his headquarters in the north

greering wired an ultimatum from the oversalzburg, saying it was time for him to take over full control of them

so that he might negotiate a peace with the allies, of course, that instantly got him

arrested fat boy it's comfort

and himmler this one the fuhrer found out about just tonight

from the bbc troy heinrich has been secretly

negotiating for peace was done by the west on his own through the swedes

now our leaders are spawning around down there, raving about the jews

let's go down into the asylum

i do not understand where everyone is scattered, every man for himself

kyle and Juliep have already gone south. [Applause.] we are among the last

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there was a move in the whole family yes, it was decided they will all die with the fuhrer when the time comes

all of them for brown also oh yes the tortoise anger the angel of

death that's what enlisted men called her she came in about a week ago

she has decided to die with him too well see you at a midnight briefing

if you're both alive i've been surrounded from the onset by

nothing but traitors incompetence and liars i should have won this war i did not

make a single mistake my plans were flawless

the army left it out the party let me know the german people let me down

you two have lied to me spain confessed that the demolitions were

never carried out

sabotage of my orders it's mutiny that mutant ears are shot and fury

i did only what i believed to be right what i believed to be right for the german people

yeah well, i've pardoned albert spear because of his services to the right

and i spare you because, contrary to the nature of your whole damned breed,

happen to be loyal

general

i now appoint you operations officer for the final defense of the chancellery

yes

as a soldier to soldier i have a

last request to make as i give you this grave responsibility

for the defense of the citadel

i must, under no circumstances, be captured alive. i know there is not

much time left but should you feel the military situation to be such

that we can no longer hold for more than 24 hours

you want to report this to me at once

this is a personal request

but there's also an order i understand

my life is not in your hands

yes of course

and so with the end almost upon him adolf hitler begins the final decisions

of his life to prevent a last treachery by the duplicitous hindler

he will have the cyanide capsules left for him by the right sphere tested on his faithful dog blondie

[Music] then shortly after midnight he formally

marries his mistress [Music]

foreign

then later that night as he retires to his quarters to dictate his last will and

testament adolf hitler will state my wife and i choose to die in order to

escape the shame of overthrow or capitulation

[Music] moreover we

do not wish to fall into the hands of an enemy or requires a new spectacle

organized by the jews for the amusement of their hysterical classes

therefore it is my wish our wish

to be burnt immediately on the spot where i have performed the

greater heart of mind daily work with the service of my people

it will be four am before the supreme warlord finishes his political statement it

rambles from one subject to another he appoints admiral dernitz to succeed him at the head of the new reich

government he praises the common german soldier and again curses the general staff for having

betrayed him but in the end he will continue to hammer away at his one guiding obsession

the jews alone they are the responsibility not only for the millions dead on the

battlefield and in the bomb cities

but for their own fate which they fought on themselves

they started the war they caused misery and death to millions of europe's aryan

peoples therefore they

had to pay though my beings were far more

humane than they deserved i demand all germans all national

socialists men and women to the last he is the fanatical hate-filled street agitator he is proud

that he has never weakened and above all he will conclude i am joined the leaders of the nation

and those under them to uphold the racial laws to their full extent

[Music] and to oppose mercilessly

the universal poison of all peoples international

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jury [Music]

and so in these last words adult hitler proudly confirms that although he had many accomplices

it was he himself who brought about the final solution

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the following day april 30th 10 a.m advanced russian units penetrate to the

street next to the chancellery scant yards from the bunker the end of

the third reich can now be counted in hours

mindful as previously instructed i must now report that i am no longer

able to guarantee that the battle-worn and exhausted troops

who are still defending the citadella are able to hold on for a further 24

hours a final assault by a large number of

tanks can be anticipated no later than dawn tomorrow morning

is the first day of may you will no doubt appreciate my fury

the significance of this date for a russian soldier

yes i know

that is all thank you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSfX61yWSwc 

War and Remembrance was very emotional - Ali could never have pulled it off. I loved watching Polly Burgen (?) play Rhoda and the fact that I wanted to shake her for her flighty, shallow lack of character. Just as there could be NO MAN who could have played Rhett Butler other than Gable, Pug Henry could have been played by NO Man but Mitchum. It has taken me the 4th time to watch this, to realize that Jan who played Byron Henry played him JUST right as he was JUST like Pug . What I considered a stiff performance the first 3 times, I realized was a to play him just as he was - the son of Pug - steady as a rock, observed his surroundings and then made logical decisions and acted without fear regardless of the consequences. I need to read the book after all these years.

Ah, Victoria Tennant ... when I first watched this series I fell in love with her (those magnificent, searching eyes!). Beyond the obvious, she was one of the better actors in this series, along with Polly Berger. Mitchum was wooden throughout, although he had his moments (and his Russian wasn’t bad at all!). I won’t talk about Jan Michael Vincent or Ally McGraw, other then to say they were dreadful.
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An awesome series! Watching it for the second time. An incredible story written by Herman Wouk to begin with. Love the weaving of Henry family life into historical fact during WW2. Has everything, plus laughter and heartbreak, lol.
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[@annava7786]

@annava7786

1 year ago
Really great series. I watch it every couple of years. I watched it first as a young person and now as an older person. I marvel at that Greatest Generation who did what had to done. Thanks so much for making it available.
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[@pilotusa]

@pilotusa

5 months ago
Great series and great story, The satellite tv where I live is showing this series now but it is too difficult to follow the way the channel jumbles up the episodes, so I decided to come to YouTube. Thanks for providing the entire series for me to "binge watch". Mitchum is an incredible actor who manages to pull off amazing scenes with only one facial expresion for the entire 15 hours....in fact Mitchum is noted for that in all his pictures and he wore it as a badge of honor. But....if you look quickly and closely....Mitchum almost manages a smile within the last 10 minutes of the series when his daughter-in-law suggests a cause for a celebration.
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[@auntbelinda6501]

@auntbelinda6501

1 year ago
For anyone who really loves this series I highly suggest that you read the complete 2 volume set of, "The Winds of War." This 7 series mini series ends at the end of volume 1!! There is MUCH MUCH more to the story of the "Warrens!" Natalie, the baby, and her Uncle end up in a Nazi prison camp, Rhoda and Pug get a divorce, Warren goes missing in action, tons and tons of other things occur!!!

Each volume is over 700 pages of wonderful historically accurate detail and story interwoven that keep you turning page after page! I was given this 2 volume set as a graduation gift in 1976, and I treasure it!! Admittedly read it about once a decade, you will not regret the expense.

The Pearl Harbor attack scenes were filmed at Port Hueneme, CA about 30 miles up the coast from Malibu. I remember getting up on the roof of my house about an hour before sunset and seeing several Japanese Zeros flying overhead making a bombing run over the Port and then a lot of explosions going off on the ground. I was in high school at the time and during classes we could hear the Japanese Zeros flying overhead.

1 year ago
Before the president gave his speech and declared war on Japan, the British beat him too it and declared war on Japan first. Their reasoning was that in case Roosevelt wanted to negotiate to stop it,  the British declaration would prove too embarrassing for the USA not to declare war.. This attack provoked Churchill to say, " When this happened, I knew we had won!"
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[@bill2953]

@bill2953

1 year ago
Just think, this little tidbit of yours and 5 bucks will get you a Starbucks latte.
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[@iangrantham8300]

@iangrantham8300

1 year ago
 @bill2953  WHo would wanna get a coffee...let alone a latte from star bucks?
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[@bill2953]

@bill2953

1 year ago
 @iangrantham8300  Your wife...
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[@iangrantham8300]

@iangrantham8300

1 year ago
 @bill2953  She's got more class than that! I mean she DID leave me...Just ONE little goat and they do that!
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[@bill2953]

@bill2953

1 year ago
 @iangrantham8300  Told you to stick with sheep. lol
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[@thevillaaston7811]

@thevillaaston7811

1 year ago
Churchill also stated that he knew that the war would be won when Germany attacked Russia. Also, that Chamberlain knew that Britain had already turned he corner before he died.
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[@67nairb]

@67nairb

6 months ago
Also because the Japanese were threatening the British Empire in Asia notably Hong Kong, Malaya and Singapore.
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[@mikebryant8122]

@mikebryant8122

3 years ago (edited)
Fairly interesting, as we are in Moscow for this episode... Victoria Tennant (Ms Tudbury): "Her mother, Irina Baronova, was a Russian prima ballerina who appeared with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Her maternal grandfather, Mikhail Baronov, was a senior officer in the Russian Navy; his wife, Lydia Vishniakova, was a general's daughter."