🎧 Patron-exclusive: Saving Private Ryan
Added 2022-09-30 02:00:02 +0000 UTCThe team shares their thoughts on the winner of the vote for "Films of War"
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I've read a little bit about Pilecki recently, and his story is pretty amazing.
2022-10-17 14:57:57 +0000 UTCThis was the first film I saw in a theater in ~ 2 years, right after leaving the Peace Corps. It was an outdoor theater in Greece. Needless to say, I wasn't ready for the opening sequence. The rest of the film was fine, but it felt abstract and conventional, after I was overwhelmed by the film's opening. Guess I'd lost my moviegoing calluses (callousness?).
2022-10-03 00:13:32 +0000 UTCAppreciate it! Yeah, a very complicated timeline in terms of the Holocaust and how much the allies knew/didn't know -- obviously the full scope wasn't evident until the very end, though, which was kind of the point I was making. The US loves to emphasize that "we stopped a genocide" or something, and just wanted to remind us all that that's pretty disingenuous, especially about America's reasons for joining the war. Really appreciate the resource, though! I'm always eager to learn more!
Tricia Aurand
2022-09-30 15:00:33 +0000 UTCHey Tricia, not criticising, WW2 and when the Allies exactly knew things is a complicated timeline but they did know before they made it to Germany. As early as 1941 reports were coming out of mass killings. The Lions Led By Donkeys podcast is currently doing a series on Witold Pilecki, a Polish Officer who volunteered to get incarcerated into Auschwitz in 1940 to document what was going on if you're interested.
BayneNothos
2022-09-30 14:05:22 +0000 UTC
