What video have you watched the most?

[Aemilius Paulus]

When Saving Private Ryan came out I thought it was the best thing ever. A movie that didn't portray the Germans as complete idiots running to the slaughter! Sure their tactics were still horribly misrepresented from a technical standpoint, but I was young and stupid then, and the combat realism was groundbreaking at the time. Must have watched it 100 times....

Lucky you. I have yet to see a good American WWII film that does not portray Russians as drunken imbeciles who use human-wave attacks. How the heck do they think Russia won the war by employing hman-wave attacks?? All you need to stop those are a few well-positioned MG-squads.

But where did you get the impression that American flicks always showed Germans as idiots? I never seemed to get that impression, as the films show Fritzes as normal if not good tacticians. Saving Private Ryan was one of the few films that did show Boches as semi-incompetents. Especially in that scene where a dozen men appear to be holding off an entire battalion of Krauts.