The generals were often disobeying their orders, instead going after Moscow and the glory of capturing an enemy capital (which wouldn’t have done much). This narrative was largely due to the western powers getting their accounts of Hitler and his generals from the generals exclusively and their desire to blame their loss on someone else. It’s really more of a slick and polished remake of The World At War (which is great for its amazing interviews) in its source material.įor instance, it discusses Operation Barbarossa and how if Hitler hadn’t been insistent about trying to take the south west of the USSR (where the factories and resources were, namely oil which they desperately needed) and pressed on to Moscow, they could have won. I initially really loved this series, and still enjoy much of its presentation and footage, but I’ve found it doesn’t square up with a more balanced approach to the source material. WW2 In Colour, while a good summary of the macro events of the war, I find is rooted in older historical opinion rather than more contemporary historians have about WW2. The documentary is absolutely lacking in detail. Anything about anti-tank weapons, nope, even though they account for the most tank kills of the German armed forces. Half the tanks Germany invaded with were panzer 1 and 2s which could get easily penetrated by the shittiest bt model but no let's look at the Tiger again which wasn't even developed yet. The documentary covers in detail only the Tiger, the t-34 and the Sherman with an honourable mention for the char b1. Anything about the KV tanks? Nope even though they were the real hurdle for panzer divisions in the invasion of Russia. Anything about the Czechoslovakian panzer t? Nope. It was another limelight show for the Tiger and the t-34. Anyway, I was excited to hear something new, to learn something but nope. I don't know about you guys but to me the most interesting age of tanks is WW2 and the documentary only does one episode? ugh. The episode about WW1 was interesting, learnt some new things (funny how Germany could barely affort 10 tanks and the US comes in and by the way orders thousands of FTs) but the episode about WW2 is absolutely disappointing. Why is it always the WW2 documentaries that are so willing to accept myths over historical accuracy? You know, a deep voiced English accent having narrator retelling the story of Enemy at the gates rather than what actually happened? This is unfortunately what happened with this documentary even though they cover WW2 in only one episode smh.
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