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World War II was totally unrealistic

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Re: World War II was totally unrealistic

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At first I thought the author might be poking fun at the war -- then I realized that he was actually poking fun at himself. People have high standards for fiction, yet some of the strangest things are real-life stories from history. A couple of my favorites from the Pacific Theater: 1) Radar detected the Japanese strike force approaching Pearl Harbor, but the guy in charge said it was a glitch. 2) The Japanese planne…

As I mentioned before, not only do the Nazis have an urgent plan to conquer the world ASAP, but they also have super science weapons research. Stealth bombers, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and jet planes. Yet, at the beginning of the war, they faced cavalry charges! There are real life super-scientists engaged in real-life super-science intrigue to keep nuclear secrets out of Nazi hands. And on top of that, these guys are worse or on a par for atrocities with anyone ever, real or imagined. And to cap it all off, they're running around doing this stuff while wearing outfits designed by Hugo Boss.

It's like the Nazis escaped from the pages of fiction and invaded reality using a time machine.

EDIT: Turns out Hugo Boss didn't design the uniforms. Still, they were quite stylish.

Re: World War II was totally unrealistic

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This is the effect of telling the histories of nations as if they were groups of 5 people. It's convenient to say sentences like, "Germany then instigated the Battle of Britain, causing Churchill to say X and beginning a lengthy battle," but anything like this is a gross simplification. When nations take action, the whole org-chart needs to move into gear, which takes extra planning and arguing and wrangling and doub…

Sure, but in the end Stalin says "Yes" and that's it. Really. And Roosevelt says "Ok, Peace" and the shooting stops. It really happens like that sometimes.

Re: World War II was totally unrealistic

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At first I thought the author might be poking fun at the war -- then I realized that he was actually poking fun at himself. People have high standards for fiction, yet some of the strangest things are real-life stories from history. A couple of my favorites from the Pacific Theater: 1) Radar detected the Japanese strike force approaching Pearl Harbor, but the guy in charge said it was a glitch. 2) The Japanese planne…

And Shakespear is just a bunch of cliche's strung together.

Every think this stuff is cliche BECAUSE of WWII? Or am I just dense?

Re: World War II was totally unrealistic

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At first I thought the author might be poking fun at the war -- then I realized that he was actually poking fun at himself. People have high standards for fiction, yet some of the strangest things are real-life stories from history. A couple of my favorites from the Pacific Theater: 1) Radar detected the Japanese strike force approaching Pearl Harbor, but the guy in charge said it was a glitch. 2) The Japanese planne…

And Shakespear is just a bunch of cliche's strung together. Every think this stuff is cliche BECAUSE of WWII? Or am I just dense?

Well the main point is that the history of WW2 is full of 'plot holes' and hard to believe stories (if it was a TV show)

Re: World War II was totally unrealistic

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And Shakespear is just a bunch of cliche's strung together. Every think this stuff is cliche BECAUSE of WWII? Or am I just dense?

Well the main point is that the history of WW2 is full of 'plot holes' and hard to believe stories (if it was a TV show)

Only because we believe, because of the movies, that largescale event SHOULD behave as if orchestrated by a logical, sane author.

History is just, all of us, doing things selfishly.

Re: World War II was totally unrealistic

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Oh cmon, it has definitely been long enough to poke fun at now. The last people who fought in it are dying as we speak. The important thing is we should never forget the dead and forget Europe's folly of WW1 and WW2. Its our generation's responsibility to work together in Europe so it doesn't happen again.

It is our all generations' responsibility to work together in the whole world to prevent such atrocities happening again.

Shame we're not doing great. Just look at Rwanda. A genocide in the mid 1990s
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