I have one other observation about the series I need to vent. Unless it happened while I dozed off, I cannot remember one instance where Burns blurred the line between the Goodguys and the Badguys and took a sympathetic tone towards Germany or Japan. That is a type of PC that bugs the heck out of me these days. During wartime we (The Allies) were fighting Nazis, not the "I saw nothing" types that abound on documentaries these days. I'm glad Burns made a point of mentioning that the smell of death originating from Mauthausen deathcamp could clearly be smelled in the nearby town, although the townspeople (Nazis) tried to deny it when the 11th Armored Division liberated it! I will freely admit that the serious study of this war has left me with a negative bias about Germans, and it doesn't help to learn that there is a movement to suppress the truth about German responsibility for the Holocaust and "erase it" from German History books. In fairness now I must also mention that the younger generations of Germans are against any attempts to conceal the truth about the evil that occurred between 1933 and 1945, so there is some hope that History need not repeat itself before we learn the lessons needed.
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