Other relevant WWII films (European front)

Steelhead sitka at teleport.com
Thu Jun 13 16:46:48 CDT 1996


The non-threatening davemarc suggests:
>the Samuel Fuller doc in which he recalls filming a concentration
>camp's liberation (his original footage is included)

There was also a documentary by John Huston commissioned by the Allied
Command and just released a few years ago, was it called "Light?"

But for a truly post-modern experience nothing tops watching re-runs of
those Ronald Reagan press conferences regarding his trip to the Waffen SS
cemetary
at Bitburg, and his heroic recollections of his role in the liberation
of Auschwitz--having apparently forgotten it was the Soviets who liberated
Auschwitz and his "unit" was taking some hill in the San Gabriel Mountains
outside Glendale.

Steely







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