Help me find this WWII series..

philstanbridge

philstanbridge

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Okay guys need some OcUK detectives to help me out with this. I’ve very little information to go on but it’s really bugging me.

A few years ago I watched a drama series based on WWII. If I recall it followed the story from the German side. It was very action packed and seemed authentic in my eyes. I remember it being aired in episodes rather than a film but I can’t remember much else. I haven’t been able to find anything like it.

in fact it has me thinking did I imagine all this?!?
 
Yes, its really good. For what it's worth Warsaw 44 is also quite exceptional.

I can't find what I'm looking for. Can't help think I may have dreamt about it, and made it up. My mind is a bit like that lol...
 
Paul_RD said:
Any luck remembering?
The only ones I can think of that I have seen from the German side are:
  • Das Boot (about a submarine crew)(TV series and also cut down into a film version)
  • Generation War (Eastern Front infantry)
  • Stalingrad (1993)
  • Land of Mine (also known as: Under Sandet)
  • Downfall (last days in the bunker)
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Nope lol... I've seen all of those. They're all good. Das Boot was also remade, and is in the second series now on Sky.
 
Paul_RD said:
You weren't actually in WW2 in a previous life perhaps? :D
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must have been! Problem stems back from when I was young. I interviewed Battle of Britain pilots with my dad and got the bug from there. Some of the stories were incredible. I grew up fascinated by the social history and then fairly recently completed my history degree which has only made matters worse for me.. I should be made to wear cords...
 
That Russian series is good, I’ve seen it too. It’s not high castle, the series I’m on about must have been older, otherwise I’d remember.

I’ve seen Tannbach. Not that either.
 
Paul_RD said:
During the late 1980's, I met Roger Hall DFC who was a Battle of Britain pilot - he wrote a book about the Battle of Britain of which I have a very old copy.

I also have a copy of A Boy in the Gulag by Jerzy Kmiecik, he was a 16 year old Polish schoolboy when war broke out. He escaped from the Germans, was arrested by the Russians, spent three years in the gulags, escaped and spent nine months on the run, got to the west and became a Spitfire and Mustang in the RAF for the final part of the war. He remained in the RAF until 1982 when he was the last WW2 pilot still flying in the RAF.
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That’s pretty special! I’d love to read a copy. My dad was working for 1 squadron when he got to meet the old boys. That’s where he decided to interview, I was only 15 at the time but between us managed to interview 24 pilots including aces and wives of pilots, plus bomber crew. It’s quite something. The best bit from my point of view is these are unique histories which have not seen the light of day. We have a large book of written memoirs plus photos and paraphernalia that I have been charged with now and some of the stories I’ve got are incredible. I’ve been trying to find a publisher but that’s another story entirely.

I really am not sure. My imagination is pretty crazy at the best of times but unless I was making it myself I’m sure it was series in colour... it might not even be German, it could be polish, or Korean, or Finnish. They’ve all produced quality series on the subject before.
 
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