I clicked through a video the other day – “The Battle of the
Baltics” from “The Greatest Tank Battles” series. It is apparently produced for
the History and National Geographic channels – yet could very well have been
Nazi propaganda. It is all shot from a German perspective and features mostly
interviews with German tank crew. Much of the footage is animation of mighty
German panzer blowing up countless “Russian” T-34s. The culmination comes when
10 panzer valiantly open a corridor so 500,000 German soldiers can withdraw to
fight another day for the Endsieg. I hope there is a parallel universe in which
the authors of this video production can live under Nazi rule. If I were
religious, I would have also added – thank God for Prof. John Erickson!
