Other relevant WWII films /Huston
White, Rich
Rich.White at FMR.Com
Fri Jun 14 06:24:00 CDT 1996
The Huston film was Let There Be Light, about US troops treatment for what
was then called shellshock. Very moving.
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.*++From: owner-pynchon-l
.*++To: SY19058
.*++Subject: Other relevant WWII films (European front)
.*++Date: Thursday, June 13, 1996 8:15PM
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.*++The non-threatening davemarc suggests:
.*++>the Samuel Fuller doc in which he recalls filming a concentration
.*++>camp's liberation (his original footage is included)
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.*++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.
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.*++Steely
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