Unbroken

A movie is film and can be very entertaining but i know it can be nothing like real life but it does give you some idea what it could be like

Hubby and I saw Unbroken a couple of weeks ago, and I too, thought of you, Lou. As much as a film can't replicate real-life experiences, we found it powerful and left the theatre just shaking our heads at the inhumanity of what the Japs did.

Same goes for the Germans too. We saw a program on the telly last week profiling the stories of some people who survived Auschwitz and the things they described were horrific.

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Originally Posted by Lou Barron

A movie is film and can be very entertaining but i know it can be nothing like real life but it does give you some idea what it could be like

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Lou I agree but just to see in this movie the sort of things they did would make many a grown man cry. It is hard to understand the thinking of the Japs in the way they behaved, it was totally inhuman.

In the end credits it told how the main character went back to Japan after the war and met with his captors, however the camp commander who had beaten him the most did not go to see him.

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Originally Posted by Jacyn Wade

Same goes for the Germans too. We saw a program on the telly last week profiling the stories of some people who survived Auschwitz and the things they described were horrific.

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I see the Press and Media are again trying to make us feel guilty about destroying in their words 'The beautiful City of Dresden' my only comment is 'You reap what you sow'

Funny how they never mention the destruction of Plymouth and Coventry, not forgetting Hull which had over 85% of its housing stock damaged, a fact not released until well after the war

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Originally Posted by Ivan Cloherty

I see the Press and Media are again trying to make us feel guilty about destroying in their words 'The beautiful City of Dresden' my only comment is 'You reap what you sow'

Funny how they never mention the destruction of Plymouth and Coventry, not forgetting Hull which had over 85% of its housing stock damaged, a fact not released until well after the war

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You reap what you sow,Well said Ivan all this bile about destroying Dresden.
WE were at war which they had started,they were on the crest of the wave at the beginning capturing
and gaining ground flattening everything in their path,they thought they were invincible
Then the tide turned.
Watched a program on TV years ago Dresden was being debated,This man stood up and said I was involved in the bombing of Dresden,as we run in to bomb Dresden in the distance you could see the vapor trails of the V2's taking off en route for London.

Must be some error on the part of the TV show: air miles from Dresden to London 618 miles. Range of the V2 rocket 200 miles.

Cheers, Rodney

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Originally Posted by Rodney Mills

Must be some error on the part of the TV show: air miles from Dresden to London 618 miles. Range of the V2 rocket 200 miles.

Cheers, Rodney

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I wrote it as I saw it on TV,the RAF bloke did say in the distance
Just how far can you see at 40,000 Feet?.

He didn't say that they were being fired from Dresden,he passed them on the way.!!!!
Regards.
Jim.B.

I saw on the news tonight a German declaring that the bombing of Dresden should be declared a War Crime, guess we will have started the war in a few years time, also Archbishop Welby was apologising on our behalf for the bombing of Dresden whilst he was in Dresden, I never gave him permission to apologise on my behalf, and so far I haven't met a German who has apologised to me for bombing me out of home three times!

Hi Ivan.
My family is still waiting for the Germans to apologize for killing my three little cousins all girls and my Aunt Doris during the bombing of Swansea which was flattened in three days of intensive bombing, my mother never got over it. Maybe that should go in as a war crime.
Cheers Des