Tribute To World War II and 9/11

Written by TVSA Team from the blog BBC Knowledge on 04 Sep 2009
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BBC Knowledge has been running a series of special documentaries and shows during August to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of World War 2.

Hitler's Bodyguard

The theme continues this month, with a series called Hitler's Bodyguard. It premieres on Monday (7 September) at 20h30 and runs Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the 13-episode season.

More about it:

Adolf Hitler caused the deaths of fifty million people. An entire nation followed him to ruin. Over a tumultuous 12 years, he went from being a minor rabble-rousing politician to supreme leader of Nazi Germany.

Hitler was hated by those he persecuted, and even by some of his own commanders - yet in 25 years no one managed to kill him. This programme shows how Hitler's bodyguards helped him cheat death on many occasions.

They expanded from a handful of thugs recruited to protect political meetings and fight opponents on the streets, to many thousands - including some of the most fearsome secret police and paramilitary forces the world has ever known.

This series documents the security operations and thwarted assassination attempts on Hitler’s life, from his rise to power to his eventual death in his bunker in 1945.

Fast facts! The war officially started on 3 September, 1939 when German invaded Poland.

Six days later (on 9 September) Britain declared war.

ALSO COMING UP

9/11 - Twin Towers
On: Friday, 11 September 2009 at 20h30 and 21h30

A docu-drama to commemorate the eight-year anniversay of 9/11, Twin Towers combines a reconstruction of events with the testimonies of survivors, victims’ families, emergency workers and city officials.

The show reconstructs the stories of those trapped inside the towers – and those who went in to save them.

Stories include; Stanley Praimnath and Brian Park, two men who had never met until that day, but whose friendship, faith and steely determination meant that they both survived; Jan Demczur, the window cleaner who managed to save the lives of his fellow elevator passengers by unimaginable methods; and the firefighters who entered the towers, many of whom never returned.

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6 Comments

Tashi
04 Sep 2009 02:16

I was just thinking, with everything that's done and been done and said about Hitler - does it all turn him into a legend instead of a monster? Even showing the atrocities - does it create hype - or is it a way of dealing with the impact of not understanding how someone could plunge to the horrors he did?

Mathaz
04 Sep 2009 09:18

I think it's more like people trying to understand what drove him to be such an evil person, I watched a doc. on the many attempts made to assisinate him but failed and always wondered why they could not succeed in killing. If you watch his eyes clears you see a very very evil man, he was so inhumane. I'm now compact and miss BBC K dearly especially the docs on the royal family.

GML
04 Sep 2009 09:25

I don't understand why people are celebrating this. Calling it a Tribute as if it's something good.

Tashi
04 Sep 2009 14:40

I think the commemoration and tribute's are more to the fact that the war was won and to honour the lives lost than to the war itself.

Tashi
04 Sep 2009 15:40

G - been thinking about it and agree, 'spesh when it comes to progamming - it's like it should all only be about the hero's of the war and the victorious battles etc.

T.O
08 Sep 2009 15:11

The guy is really the bad news. I think the Jewish community would agree with me. Never in the history of mankind did we have such a nuisance. There is nothing to be celebrated about that painfull error at all.

The less said about the man the better. he was the worst dictator that ever lived. Even in African states where dictorship has been very common in the last few decades, none of them can equal him. he was simply rotten to the core.

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