American Heroes Channel......WTF?

[Straight Shooter]

Consider giving up TV altogether.
What peace.

[m1a_scoutguy]

Sure, but there was LOT of WWII (like half of it) that didn't involve the Nazis. Don't see anywhere near as much on the Pacific war. Besides, we're not talking about D-Day or Battle of the Bulge shows; no it's crap like "Nazis: Evil Empire", "Project Nazi", "Nazis: Evolution of Evil", "Nazi Secret Files", or "Hitler". Almost all of those are redundant series too. Give it a break already, jeez.....I don't two shits about Nazis or their history. Battles? Yeah, that I'll watch. But spare me the recap of their sordid history. I get it already.

Yep. We have to remember it was the most documented part of that war. Also there is a deep fascination with the subject because of all the bizarre components that went along with it.

But yeah, it is a little unsettling to have shows devoted to Hitler on a channel called "Heroes", not intended but seems off. Still better than Ice Road Truckers.

Dam, I agree with all above and yea, plenty of info about the dam Nazi & Hitler, cool its important stuff, BUT its the same shows day after day, night after night ! I haven't seen anything New or something I haven't already watched 10 times coming around, same old same !! Maybe the New Fall Season will bring something "newer" !

[yoni]

I turn off the TV and just read a book on the Russian Civil War

[SilverBullet432]

Peeped Netflix lately? Even Discovery + is full of “Nazi secret space weapons” documentaries…

[B52U]

There would be a killer market for minor brush war documentaries like Rhodesia and the SA border conflict. Think of the TTPs and technical innovations that occurred during those conflicts. I suppose apartheid and anti-communist stuff doesn't play well today though.

[Averageman]

Lets see a disaterous end result of a war.
Uncontrolled inflation.
Political Divison.
Goods not being moved in to population centers.

All we're missing is a kristalnacht and we're all in.

[Diamondback]

On the upside, it does give a refresher for those with the mental faculties who haven't yet done so to line it up and draw the parallels between then and now.

It's actually nice that History's started up "Cities of the Underworld" again after like a 10-year hiatus and NatGeo has been replacing some of its "all tuna" days with dusting off reruns of Drain The Oceans and Albert Lim's Lost Cities. Too bad we don't have anyone to pick up where Gunny left off with Mail Call and Lock n Load... kinda oversimplified but they were good "primer level" introductions.

[flenna]

There would be a killer market for minor brush war documentaries like Rhodesia and the SA border conflict. Think of the TTPs and technical innovations that occurred during those conflicts. I suppose apartheid and anti-communist stuff doesn't play well today though.

I’d be in to see that. Although I am sure they would portray Robert Mugabe and his communist terrorists who raped, tortured and murdered thousand of civilians as the heroes fighting against the white oppressors. Maybe do a before and after. Rhodesia- the breadbasket of Africa and exporter of food. Zimbabwe- a starving, crime ridden hell hole that begs for food from the international community.

[SteyrAUG]

There would be a killer market for minor brush war documentaries like Rhodesia and the SA border conflict. Think of the TTPs and technical innovations that occurred during those conflicts. I suppose apartheid and anti-communist stuff doesn't play well today though.

Probably far less footage as most people were fighting rather than filming. However the nazi's really thought it was gonna be a 1,000 year reich, or at lest they did until about 1943, so they filmed just about everything including a lot of stuff that would be used against them in Nuremburg. But they never thought they would actually lose and felt a responsibility to document everything for the generations to come for the grateful citizens of Germania.

And honestly, I'd rather park a bunch of kids in front of that and have them actually learn something about anything than the shit they normally watch or find myself watching Pawn Stars.

In the early days if small dish the Learning channel was actually that rather than Bridzillas or whatever, the Discovery channel was like NOVA all day long and the history channel could be left on all day long.

Sure there were more important theaters of war, but again that usually precludes people running around with just a camera and getting anything worthy and surviving. In the Pacific, Victory at Sea is still probably the definitive documentation other than what was filmed by the Japanese. On the Russian front, very little was filmed considering how much was actually happening. I bet a bunch of people tried to film it and got blown up with everyone else.

Even most of our D Day footage was lost while it was being transported back. I think we only have a couple reels of day one footage. I hope they continue to show "The World at War" forever, besides being exceptionally well produced and comprehensive, every generation needs to see it so they think for a moment before throwing around words like "nazi."

Then there is also the fact that the Russians waited until the wall came down to release all of their secret files and in the course of doing so changed some history regarding the last days of the war as well as revealing a lot of atrocity information about both sides. The Germans themselves seem to have waited about 50 years before they were willing to discuss some things in great detail.

Moving beyond this things like SS fascination with the occult and what was done at Wewelsburg are mind boggling to consider. When you think, they actually believed this shit and changed the world because of it.

[SteyrAUG]

Lets see a disaterous end result of a war.
Uncontrolled inflation.
Political Divison.
Goods not being moved in to population centers.

All we're missing is a kristalnacht and we're all in.

Pretty much, we've already had the Reichstag fire on Jan. 6.