tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342930056419073948.post7089406141780559..comments2023-12-19T20:01:48.859+00:00Comments on Disaster history: The massacred villageJohn Withingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02208997907356282053noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342930056419073948.post-85971578889507813062011-06-11T09:29:58.452+01:002011-06-11T09:29:58.452+01:00'The Sorrow and the Pity' - there was a cl...'The Sorrow and the Pity' - there was a classic. He also made a wonderful film about 15 years later about the Russian invasion and occupation of Germany - can't remember the title. A great film buff like you will also remember 'It Happened Here' about a Nazi occupation of Britaindisasterhistorianhttp://www.disasterhistorian.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342930056419073948.post-86109118728481848492011-06-10T10:27:41.732+01:002011-06-10T10:27:41.732+01:00Thanks John. If memory serves, didn't Jeremy I...Thanks John. If memory serves, didn't Jeremy Isaac's amazing TV series The World At War actually start with footage of this location as reminder? A perfect starting point and a reminder of the seismic and enduring agonies that the ruins represent. Easy to forget the Nazi-sympathetic secret police as well as the Paris cops willingly rounding up Jewish children for deportation etc: on seeing Marcel Ophuls' The Sorrow And The Pity, you realise just how many French thought the Germans to be a jolly good thing. And then you think how we might have feared; and not much better has to be the answer...Johnny Bullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03025464373041140890noreply@blogger.com