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Is that the one about a family stay in an Airbnb next to Auschwitz?
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Anyone watched the bbc D-Day stuff?
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Long slender neck wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 3:00 pm Is that the one about a family stay in an Airbnb next to Auschwitz?
Yep. Rudolf Höss, his wife Hedwig and their kids.
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Are Hoss and Hess different Nazis?
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They are indeed. It was genuinely quicker to Google it than type the question out.
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Where did you ask if they were different nazis?
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i got a book La Mort Est Mon Métier ( death is my trade ) by Robert Merle. The protagonist, Rudolf Lang, was closely based on the real Rudolf Höß, commandant of the concentration camp of Auschwitz. It is quite a famous book by a good French author. It made chilling reading. In it Rudolf Lang is a " family " guy. He constantly moans about the quotas of murders they he has to organise. He has no empathy for his victims. If you can read French it is not a difficult book. I recommend otherwise the English translation. Don't read it, if you are feeling fed up!
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Proposition Joe wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 3:26 pm They are indeed. It was genuinely quicker to Google it than type the question out.
Which one was the best?
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Dunners wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 4:35 pm
Proposition Joe wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 3:26 pm They are indeed. It was genuinely quicker to Google it than type the question out.
Which one was the best?
I'll get back to you, need to find the SS Top Trumps you leant me.
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The Acolyte - best Star Wars since Andor
Fallout - surprisingly fun
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Bones and All. Currently on iPlayer. Decent, but f*cked up, cannibalism yarn.
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CEB wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 6:01 pm The Acolyte - best Star Wars since Andor
Fallout - surprisingly fun
Not a Star Wars fan but from a neutral it appears that Disney are just milking the brand safe in the knowledge people will watch anyway. Much like they did with Marvel for years until it didn’t work anymore

Would that be an unfair assessment?
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That's my assessment. Aside from Rogue One, Disney have gone and done a Disney on Star Wars.
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Currywurst and Chips wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 6:05 pm
CEB wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 6:01 pm The Acolyte - best Star Wars since Andor
Fallout - surprisingly fun
Not a Star Wars fan but from a neutral it appears that Disney are just milking the brand safe in the knowledge people will watch anyway. Much like they did with Marvel for years until it didn’t work anymore

Would that be an unfair assessment?
Bit more complex than that, but I’d say fair enough as of 18 months ago
Star Wars currently is getting its s*** together after a bit of a period where those holding the purse strings thought that getting returning stars and sticking them in The Volume (basically a massive dome with 360 degree screens making it cheap to appear like you’re in a location) would be enough. It had diminishing returns, but it seems that now there’s likely to be some safe bet series that get churned out regularly (Mandalorian type stuff) with some gambles on proper passion projects by serious talent - Andor and The Acolyte fall into that bracket
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Its very sad that the nerds still lap it up, you'd think they'd have learnt after the prequel trilogy.
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Dunners wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 6:17 pm That's my assessment. Aside from Rogue One, Disney have gone and done a Disney on Star Wars.

Watch Andor. It’s better than Rogue One
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Watching the BBC D Day veterans , quite moving 😪😪
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Godzilla Minus One - bloody excellent and really interesting placement of the story timewise (in immediately post-War Japan), slightly earlier than the original iterations.
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Seconded. The human aspect of the story is bloody excellent (even if it is almost beat by beat the same as a certain Curb episode)
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BIGRON wrote: Thu Jun 06, 2024 11:00 am Watching the BBC D Day veterans , quite moving 😪😪
I dropped in to have a look and learned:

"that you feel the cold much more when you are sitting down, which is why the veterans in their wheelchairs are using blankets"

There is a point in the overly televised event when space filling banal commentary like that devalues the acts of great bravery these men performed and impinges on their dignity.
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Eric - Netflix. 2 episodes in - very dark but good so far.
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The Wrong Man
Excellent BBC2 documentary about a bloke sent to prison for rape on the basis of NO EVIDENCE - and remained behind bars 17 years because he would not admit to the crime.
A savage indictment on Manchester Police and the UK justice system.
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Anatomy of a fall- textbook boring European poo poo
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Admin wrote: Fri Jun 07, 2024 10:35 pm Eric - Netflix. 2 episodes in - very dark but good so far.
Worth a watch, not quite what I expected from the trailers.
Looking forward to series 3 of The Bear.
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Long slender neck wrote: Wed Jun 19, 2024 7:44 pm Anatomy of a fall- textbook boring European poo poo
It was so boring I was going to push him off myself.
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