Fantasque Time Line

[mikey1983]

Die Deutsche Wochenschau (The German Weekly Review) was the title of the unified newsreel series released in the cinemas of Nazi Germany from June 1940 until the end of World War II. In the 1930s there were several such newsreels in Germany, which were merged into one with the outbreak of the war and given the above title in June 1940.

Below is the last broadcast of the Wochenschau, No. 755, from 22 March 1945. It is doubtful that many even watched this at the time, considering the overall war situation. While watching this, I was imagining a similar final broadcast of the Wochenschau in FTL, possibly sometime in October 1944. Note that the film refers to the resupply of the Courland pocket, something that obviously would not occur in FTL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MuSa1JXJyc

NB: Only English subtitles are available.

[loic]

Interesting, thanks!
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[mikey1983]

You're welcome. I only found it on YouTube today, and figured there would be interest in it here.

[Archibald]

Wonder what kind of glorious / victory news they found, to trumpet to the german populace... by this point Germany was akin to Monty Pythons "Holy Grail" Black Knight at the end of the fight with Arthur, King of the Britons (ALL britons - even those who didn't voted for him, those anarchist peasants)

"Tis but a scratch" (chop, there go the arms)

"I've had worse !" (chop, now its the legs)

"I'm invincible ! The Black Knight is invincible !"

https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/great-scene-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-a12b8650508
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Sergueï Lavrov: "l'Ukraine subira le sort de l'Afghanistan" - Moi: ah ouais, comme en 1988.
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"C'est un asile de fous; pas un asile de cons. Faudrait construire des asiles de cons mais - vous imaginez un peu la taille des bâtiments..."

[ChtiJef]

Lecture interdite...

[mikey1983]

[Archibald]

Nah, you just need the Opera browser with an integrated VPN, and then - screw TF1 !

https://www.opera.com/fr/features/free-vpn
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Sergueï Lavrov: "l'Ukraine subira le sort de l'Afghanistan" - Moi: ah ouais, comme en 1988.
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"C'est un asile de fous; pas un asile de cons. Faudrait construire des asiles de cons mais - vous imaginez un peu la taille des bâtiments..."

[mikey1983]

Good to know!

Anyway, what is noteworthy about the film is what is not told or shown - namely, the Western Front in its entirety, save for a brief mention of "terror bombings." One would get the impression that the USSR was the only enemy that Germany was fighting in a life-or-death struggle. Perhaps this is because March was when the German defences on the Rhine crumbled, with the Americans seizing the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen intact on 7 March, enabling them to establish a large bridgehead on the east bank of the Rhine. And on 22 March, the day of this broadcast, the U.S. Third Army under Patton crossed the Rhine at Oppenheim.

[Archibald]