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Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk is a load of shite
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 58063360:MV8zNTc5NzQzXzYzOTM4OTU0XzRBNkVBQ0ZE] [quote:Anonymous Coward 71044287:MV8zNTc5NzQzXzYzOTM4ODk0X0U3MTk4OUM2] [quote:Anonymous Coward 58063360:MV8zNTc5NzQzXzYzOTM4ODYwXzY3RUM1MTEw] Let's not forget Germany was bound by treaty to a much smaller army after ww1 as well. To diminish the problem, their entire army was trained as nco's with each man being qualified to lead squads and larger units. In effect, Germany created an entire army of leaders and trainers that could quickly draft and train men as solid soldiers thus forming cohesive units rapidly. No doubt the Russian front was their Waterloo. Russia should get lots of credit for Germany's loss. It should be noted that Germans were good soldiers. When properly supplied, they had a tendency to win. All that changed when the 8th Air Force landed in Britain and started bombing the hell out of Germans by day and britts killing jerry by night. No armored force and it's spare parts could have survived. Successful landings at d-day spelled the fate of Germany. Moving all panzer units west of the Rhine would have been more of a turkey shoot for the 8th Air Force. Us war fighting doctrine was superior as well. Most German armed forces fought as separate forces with their own objectives. Us war fighting doctrine evolved into combined arms fight the same or similar mission. There are many reasons Germany lost the war including being separated by vast oceans from the United States. Which allowed us to produce war machines and equipment at an alarming rate virtually unhendered. Thus as we built our forces and readied them for combat, we were able to use the lend lease program to make up for deficiencies in Russia and Britain. [/quote] And don't forget these reasons... 1) U.S. and Britain waged TOTAL WAR on Germany, which meant destroying everything; not just military targets. Dresden wasn't the only glaring example. Hamburg, Frankfurt, Berlin were firebombed into rubble (and the burned flesh of civilians). 2) Without doubt, the Soviets defeated Germany in WWII. If Germany only fought a war on its western front, does anyone honestly think the outcome would've been the same? [/quote] If there was no Russian front and Britton wouldn't have allowed the staging of invasion forces and prevented the 8th Air Force from clobbering Hitler's armored forces, probably, yes but that's a lot what if's. Also, carpet bombing cities destroyed and hampered war building and supply efforts while breaking the will of enemies. It did however provide Germans with excellent ambush points and made street to street fighting more costly for the allies. [/quote]
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He makes it seem like the evacuation at Dunkirk was some sort of heroic event on the part of the Allies. Bullshit! The only reason the Allies escaped was because Uncle Adolf allowed them to escape. Hitler's infamous "Stop Order" is the reason the allies escaped. It wasn't due to any nail-biting, heroic action on the part of the Allies. Christopher Nolan is a bullshit artist. He should have made a movie about the real heroes of the Battle of France, the Wehrmacht - the greatest fighting force in the history of warfare:
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