SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Am I Missing Something?

A Brilliant Conflict

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

What if? That's the question raised by this documentary that considers the question of what life in Britain would have been like had Hitler's Germany won World War II and occupied the island. This has the advantage of being based on actual documents. The Germans expected to defeat Britain and had very detailed plans for what to do with the occupation, right down to which personalities would be arrested, which organizations would be destroyed and which museums would be plundered. The first half of this film deals with that German occupation, and it's a sobering look at what British life would have become, based on the documents and on the examples of how the Germans dealt with other nations under occupation. As this half comes to a close, I thought the film lost a bit of its bite as it became highly speculative, proposing either a nuclear war between Germany and the United States or a Cold War between the two powers, and suggesting that, with Werner von Braun not being captured by the Americans, Germany would have landed men on the moon first. Maybe, but that seemed to be becoming a bit too speculative and was going a bit beyond what the purpose of the film was. The second half of the movie shifts the focus from what the Germans would have done in the occupation to what the British would have done, and focuses on the plans for the "Auxiliary Units" set up on Churchill's orders - basically, small groups of men organized on a village by village basis who were to engage in guerilla warfare against the Germans. The depiction of the types of sabotage they would have engaged in was realistic, but in the end the film suggests that their operations would have been largely hopeless, and would have led to widespread reprisals against the civilian population.Certainly, this is a sobering and realistic documentary that makes one grateful for those who so long ago made sure that Nazi tyranny would be defeated.

A very interesting book that preceded both Deighton's SS-GB and this movie, was "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick. (He's also the author of many fantastic stories that have made it to the screen: Bladerunner; Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck, A Scanner Darkly).In the Man in the High Castle, the US is divided up between Japan and Germany after winning WWII. Japan gets the West Coast, Germany the East Coast.READ IT!! it's fantastic! and while you're at it, also read It Can't Happen Here...

What if Hitler had invaded the UK? What if Germany had won WWII? What if the United Kingdom was a Nazi State? This documentary - or I suppose, more correctly docu-dram paints a very vivid and very credible picture of what life would have been like under the Nazis.The documentary is very methodical, as it takes us step-by-step, down the path from initial invasion, via appeasement, to UK death camps.I watched this on television on its first showing and it has left an indelible mark on my memory. I only wish it was available to purchase.I strongly recommend that anyone with an interest in history, politics or the war, who gets the opportunity to watch this - to make every effort to do so - you will not be disappointed.

This documentary is actually the first part of a (two-part) miniseries entitled "Hitler's Britain." Part One gives a terrifyingly convincing picture of what might well have occurred if the Nazis had launched a successful invasion of Great Britain in 1940. It suggests that eminent appeasers, such as Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, would have collaborated with Hitler and that "enemies of the Reich" (Socialists, Freemasons, and of course Jews) would have been rounded up and shot or sent to the European death camps. Part Two visualizes the collapse of British military resistance within a few months of the invasion, the activating of Churchill's civilian underground fighters, and their ultimate destruction. That would have left Hitler free to perfect his long-range missiles and launch them in waves against the Soviet Union and the United States. Having lived through the World War 2 Blitz (in Liverpool), and knowing how the Nazis treated many millions of so-called "Untermenschen," I believe that these two documentaries provide a clear idea of what the British people's fate would have been under Nazi occupation.