This documentary presents a lot of new information for me.
Not mentioned during the discussion of the RAF's success against the Luftwaffe is how the Chain Home early warning radar system enabled an outnumbered British air defense to succeed in spite of Germany's advantage.
A prevalent message in this film is Churchill's horror at the Holocaust; by early 1942, he knew 1.5 million Jews (no. cited in the film) had been killed by the SS in Eastern Europe.
Unfortunately, history indicates the Allies did very little during the War to stop the slaughter or to save and absorb refugees. This leads me to question the accuracy of this presentation. How was this reflected in Churchill's policies? Did he publicize what he discovered? How much did FDR know and, paraphrasing Mr. Baker, when did he know it? Interestingly, the only relevant mention in Wikipedia's Winston Churchill page indicates the opposite: "A newspaper article penned by Churchill and published on 4 February 1920, had warned that civilization was threatened by the Bolsheviks, a movement which he linked through historical precedence to Jewish conspiracy. He wrote in part: 'This movement among Jews is not new ... but a 'world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality." (http://bit.ly/1OulRZl) Ugly.
Not mentioned during the discussion of the RAF's success against the Luftwaffe is how the Chain Home early warning radar system enabled an outnumbered British air defense to succeed in spite of Germany's advantage.
A prevalent message in this film is Churchill's horror at the Holocaust; by early 1942, he knew 1.5 million Jews (no. cited in the film) had been killed by the SS in Eastern Europe.
Unfortunately, history indicates the Allies did very little during the War to stop the slaughter or to save and absorb refugees. This leads me to question the accuracy of this presentation. How was this reflected in Churchill's policies? Did he publicize what he discovered? How much did FDR know and, paraphrasing Mr. Baker, when did he know it? Interestingly, the only relevant mention in Wikipedia's Winston Churchill page indicates the opposite: "A newspaper article penned by Churchill and published on 4 February 1920, had warned that civilization was threatened by the Bolsheviks, a movement which he linked through historical precedence to Jewish conspiracy. He wrote in part: 'This movement among Jews is not new ... but a 'world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality." (http://bit.ly/1OulRZl) Ugly.