BOC: Swastikas and Me.262s!
john paine
jpaine at LINKNET.KITSAP.LIB.WA.US
Fri Apr 26 13:37:38 EDT 1996
> subversive! It presents a scene from World War Two, and invites us - and
> it's intended, really, for a US audience, but it works in Britain just as
> well (if not better) - to identify with "the enemy"; to be open-minded enough
> to see things from their viewpoint. This is *really* unusual - of all the
> many WW2 films, for instance, I can only think of two, off-hand, which are
> told from a German point of view (_Cross of Iron_ and _The Keep_, fwiw), and
> in neither of those are they fighting western troops. What the song's
How about "Das Boot?"
-Passerby (and submariner)
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