The Buildings that Fought Hitler

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Recently discovered this on the Yesterday channel.

It's presented by Rob Bell, who you may know as a talking head from shows like Abandoned Engineering and Secret Nazi Bunkers, but unlike those shows this is a proper documentary series that does not tease you or string things out.

Despite the title, it doesn't confine itself to just buildings, and is more of a history of WW2 with an emphasis on infrastructure. One episode is entirely dedicated to Radar, for example.

Recommended.


(edited because I simply cannot leave a typo)

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Saturday 12th June 17:31

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FiF said:

I was disappointed that it didn't cover the Government Pipeline Storage System. None of these programmes ever cover this. Just as secret as all the others, in some ways even more so.

Perhaps we will be lucky and get a second series.

FiF said:

Though the one about the planning for the auxiliary guerrilla forces in case of invasion was interesting.

As was the approach to the Battle of Britain which very effectively dealt with the narrative that this was all about "The Few" but was actually a huge coordinated operation at all sorts of levels and involved many diverse operational units.

Yes. This is what I liked about it. It acknowledged a more holistic overview than the usual sensationalism.

"The Few.... supported by The Many" was a sound bite that I thought was very germain.

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marcosgt said:

The presenter is perfect, I think, interesting without being sensationalist or 'wacky' as so many seem to be these days

I agree.

I did initially have reservations (see my original post) but he very quickly assuaged my fears.