D-Day

it was an effort of the ENTIRE allied forces mind you! those three were the biggest actors (with Russia in the east of course)

"Many people died, but I think it could have been prevented."

Sure, it could have been prevented, had Hitlers mom had an abortion.

then probably some one else took over BF, it's not THAT easy

No, had the Allies not appeased Hitler at the start of his career, but that's completely off topic.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
What the heck do you mean by 'fake'? Technically ALL of it is fake; if you mean wrong, more detail would be nice...

But it did show an 100% objective view of the events of D-Day, with all parts played by renowned actors of the correct countries.

some of the scenes weren't 100% accurate, like the scene were they're charging up the beaches after the wall is breached. That never happened. Other than that, it was good, and infomitive

This is about D-Day, and has nothing to do with the Soviets. They have a fair few celebrations for their own victories, but this is very much a Western celebration, and for solid reasons. It is not very appropriate to include the USSR, really.

But all joking aside, I definately commermorate today, many brave men, from all countries died today. My hat's off to them all.

Originally posted by silver_tears
No, had the Allies not appeased Hitler at the start of his career, but that's completely off topic.

*curse chamberlain grrrrrr*

I've been watching the History Channel. All day, all d-day

that's nice for you *raises eyebrow*

I feel so smothered surrounded by all males 🥷

And Chamberlain wasn't the only one 😛

I would very much hesitiate to pile into Chamberlain without an in-depth knowledge of the period.

In fact, it is too complex a period to be dealt with with brief lines and accusations at all. As we can see, the tendency now has been to blame the allied nations for being both too harsh and too soft.

Originally posted by silver_tears
I feel so smothered surrounded by all males 🥷

And Chamberlain wasn't the only one 😛

guess who? France! lol
but they had their reasons. WW1 was the worse thing to happen to Europe other than WW2.

to Europe as a whole? wouldn't really say that... you could count Napoleon... and of course local history showed some other dark pages of the thick history book too 🙁

Oh and about the D-Day celebrations, I personally feel very good about the fact that for the first time in 60 years Germany was invited.

didn't know that. any idea why they weren't allowed? or why they were allowed this year?

Trying to overcome political barriers and bring the countries closer if I had to guess.

why they weren't?
as I said earlier: even now veterans (not all of them of course) absolutely hated the idea of them being there!

D-Day, yes, well...every year we've got the same old song...but obviously we don't have the heads of the 4 or 5 most powerful nations in the world over here every year...

Originally posted by Agent Elrond
We bailed France out, and what have they done for us?

What a terrific question. I had hoped some would be more intelligent than that, and not bring up the whole "We freed you during WWII. And now how dare you disagree with us on the 2nd Gulf War ?" Well, to start with I'd say that Louis XVI send some soldiers before 1780 in what is naow called the US while the "American" soldiers were a bit demoralized. Men like Lafayette were quite useful, as far as I remember. Plus the French fleet helped (Yorktown). And there was in 1783 a Versailles treaty. So you'd have probably never have existed...you really have a short memory...

And yes we gave you the Statue of Liberty, and what's more yours is bigger than ours 😉

And that doen't mean we're not grateful for the US intervention in 1944. No offence, but to think the contrary or that because of this intervention, we have no right to disagree with you woul really be stupid.

I'm not going on with that, for that is close to political themes...

So, D-Day...well I've nothing more to say. The whole WW2 is a painful memory for the French, and a big effort have been made to erase it. People like Gen. de Gaulle started a campaign, according to which " most French had resisted the Nazis during the "Occupation", even if it was passive resistance...
The truth is that a major part of the French people have neither collaborated, nor resisted...but that's still a period they don't like to remember.

oooh, you upsetted the frenchie now 😉

The French did more than enough 😂

And what's more is the Canadians freed the Dutch 😱