General Discussion

WarGamer

(16,585 posts)

13. I'll put it on my watchlist.

Tue Jan 21, 2025, 04:11 PM

Jan 21

I'm quite familiar with WW2 "resistance" stories.

It's fair to ask... "Are they worth it?"

When the Nazis were executing 10 or 100 civilians for every German killed or train derailed...

Was it worth it?

Quite a dilemma.

For example. The Warsaw Uprising of 1944. You see... the Soviets were approaching Warsaw, pushing the Germans back...

Since the Germans were starting to pull soldiers AWAY from Warsaw, the Polish resistance decided to launch an attack against German forces in the city

The Soviets halted their advance, Germans reinforced, crushed the resistance and leveled Warsaw.

What if they didn't launch the attack? The Soviets would have liberated Warsaw weeks earlier.

And the killing of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague...

SOB deserved it for sure, but in retribution, the Nazis killed over 1300 innocent civilians, including hundreds of children.

On the other hand... lack of resistance is akin to surrender...

Difficult choice.

Cannot edit, recommend, or reply in locked discussions

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

13 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] exmodee Jan 21 OP

Or this, not funny at all - a movie about what may be required of resistance. Ocelot II Jan 21 #1

I've never seen this, but have seen plenty of other WWII films exmodee Jan 21 #2

This was just released a few weeks ago - one of the best WWII films I've ever seen. Ocelot II Jan 21 #4

I'll put it on my watchlist. WarGamer Jan 21 #13

Several of the primary actors had fled Nazi Germany, or lost relatives in the Holocaust bucolic_frolic Jan 21 #3

Gen Burkhalter wore a scar on his face from a Nazi attack Norbert Jan 21 #6

The closest person on that set to being a Nazi was probably Bob Crane. Omnipresent Jan 21 #5

Hogan's Heroes was a a TV series that suggested life in a Nazi prison camp was just a series of fun hijinks. To suggest Martin68 Jan 21 #7

Can't even imagine the reaction that would happen now if a TV exec ever proposed a comedy about a Nazi prison camp. MichMan Jan 21 #8

it was military on military. LeftInTX Jan 21 #10

There were several, but no others I'm aware of featured German or Japanese adversaries in starring roles MichMan Jan 21 #11

FYI Hogan's Heroes was a more comedified version of "Stalag 17" andym Jan 21 #9

Robert Clary who played LeBeau was an actual survivor of the concentration camps. Crunchy Frog Jan 21 #12