Most of the previous understanding of World War II was Japan's invasion of China, setting fire to massacre the city, and human bacteria experiments.
Since the data mainly comes from written records, there is no intuitive feeling of the cruelty of the actual war.
In the documentary, the German army swept across Europe, the Japanese army swept the Pacific Ocean, thousands of prosperous cities were reduced to ashes in the fire, and the sharp contrast of smiling faces gradually turning into corpses in the camera was shocking.
It's not just the brutality of the war that is shocking.
When the Germans invaded Poland, the Poles welcomed it, thinking it was at least better than Stalin's reign of terror.
The French surrendered after a few weeks of resistance, and later the French Vichy and German troops cooperated to counteract their allies.
The Russian people desperately defended their homeland. Many people died of exhaustion to produce military supplies. Women took up arms and went to the battlefield. Even dogs participated in the war.
In London, England, people go to work under fire during the day and sleep in the subway collectively at night.
President Churchill refused to surrender, and all the defeated countries in Europe put their hopes on the British people.
The United States has become the world's arms factory, and almost all allied weapons and military equipment come from the United States.
Hitler had Parkinson's symptoms and had dodged five assassinations, killing his favorite dog before committing suicide.
A Nazi officer poisoned his six children before committing suicide.
Seeing the little girl write "The end" on a bomb at the end of the film, I can't help but breathe a sigh of relief, it's finally over!
It is a pity that this is a documentary of Europeans telling about the European battlefield. It would be nice if there were more records of Asian people's resistance to Japanese aggression.
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