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Originally Posted by pencon
Just once I would like to see a WW2 Air combat movie where ze germans arent depicted as complete Idiots and totally inept and evil all at the same time. I mean if they were really that useless and never got a kill the war would have lasted 6 months not 5 years.As someone mentioned earlier , the only realistic portrayal from the german point of view was "das Boot" .I would love to see a movie that portrayed BOTH sides and even the german pilots as human beings whipping through those B 17 formations through their eyes as well . That would have made a well rounded story .
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I think the Battle of Britain does a fairly good job of that, although of course the main focus is on the RAF so there is not much of it, but the German scenes do a lot to make them more 'human' than most portrayals. For example, the scene where they are sat round the table for dinner with candles marking the missing, or the fact that you actually see the German pilots, not only outside but also inside their aircraft, and showing a lot of emotion as well. And the fact that there is more dialouge than the Commando Comic style 'Gott im himmel!' and 'Die, Schwein!'
Either way, you're right, I wish more films like Das Boot, or even games in a similar vein would be made about other things, air, land and sea, to help people realise that the German soldiers/airmen were not all Nazi's, were not all awful and at the end of the day were human beings, rather than one-dimensional, one-size-fits-all 'baddies' or just sprites for the 'goodies' to shoot at.