Very impressive and very good work fom a technical pov.
I find it especially impressive if you compare it with air footage of German cities in 1945, as for example the ones shot during the trolley missions, some pics can be seen here:
http://thebigfoto.com/world-war-2-trolley-missions
This puts the whole thing into dimension. The damage done to Warsaw in 2 months looks at least equal if not more to the damage done by
years of bomb raids to Cologne - one of the major cities with the most structural damage.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
I have criticised the cult about the Auschwitz remembrance for the same reason. People sit and eat beside the entrance to the compound. And they will drink a coffee with milk and sugar while watching that digital video about Warsaw. And they will find it an exciting evening spend at the cinemas next time a warmovie is shown.
We are so fixiated on staring back into history that we miss to prevent new calamities being done in the present. WWII we could not have prevented, none of us, we all are too young. The genocide in Darfhur for example is something that takes place during our lives. That we could have tried to influence for the better. (Just an example).
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I had a cola with ice during the clip, no coffee for me, thanks.
So who is the authority to tell how things should be remembered? Do the people who starved to death in the KLs gain something if you don't eat there? Are the people who
impious?
Everyone who
wants to remember can do it their own way. There might even be some people who think some silly stones in Berlin can help the memory - though I never met a single one.
Thinking about events from history does also not mean to have no awareness of today's atrocities. For example the Holocaust Museum in Washington has its own exhibition about Darfur and other contemporary genocides like Bosnia and Rwanda.