The second world war may have ended on September 2, 1945, with Japan’s formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri, but the film industry has never stopped fighting. Nearly 70 years later, the demand for WWII films is insatiable, and the supply appears limitless. More accurate movies about the second world war contribute facts that will blow your mind.
The Second World War, also called WWII or WW2, was a war that happened all over the world from 1939 to 1945. It was fought between two military groups, the Allies and the Axis powers, which were made up of almost all of the world’s countries, including all of the major powers. In a total war in which more than 100 million people from more than 30 countries were directly involved, the major players put all of their economic, industrial, and scientific power behind the war effort. This made it hard to tell the difference between civilian and military resources. Aircraft were significant to the war because they were used to bomb population centers and for the only two times nuclear weapons were used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest war in human history. Between 70 and 85 million people died in it, most of them civilians. People died by the tens of millions because of genocides (like the Holocaust), starvation, massacres, disease, and other things. After the defeat of the Axis, Germany and Japan were occupied, and the leaders of both countries were put on trial for war crimes.
Start of World War II
Most people agree that World War II in Europe began on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland and the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany two days later. The war in the Pacific started on either July 7, 1937, with the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, or September 19, 1931, with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Others agree with the British historian A. J. P. Taylor said that the Sino-Japanese War and the war in Europe and its colonies happened at the same time and that the two wars combined in 1941 to form World War II. The Italian invasion of Abyssinia on October 3, 1935, is another date that is sometimes used to mark the beginning of World War II. Antony Beevor, a British historian, thinks that the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, which took place from May to September 1939, were the start of World War II. These battles were fought between Japan and the forces of Mongolia and the Soviet Union. Some people see the Spanish Civil War as the start of World War II or as the lead-up to it.
World war II’s end
Not everyone agrees on the date that the war ended, either. At the time, most people thought the war ended with the armistice on August 14, 1945 (V-J Day), not with Japan’s formal surrender on September 2, 1945, which was when the war officially ended in Asia. In 1951, Japan and the Allies signed a peace treaty. The reunification of East and West Germany was made possible by a treaty about Germany’s future that was signed in 1990. This treaty also solved most problems left over from World War II. No formal peace treaty was ever signed between Japan and the Soviet Union. However, the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 ended the state of war between the two countries and brought back full diplomatic relations. In addition, pictures of some of the iconic world war II events were also captured.
Six movies about World War II that are accurate
Come and see
In 1985, a film was released. During the Nazi conquest of Belarus, a young kid joins the Partisans to help oppose the invaders, but when he returns to his native village and uncovers a massacre performed by an SS Einsatzgruppen unit, he loses his innocence and his mind. Before he can rejoin his companions in the fight against the Nazis, he is apprehended by the unit and sees the mass murder of an entire town.
Europa Europa
From Germany to Poland, a Jewish boy flees. When the Nazis march further east, a Wehrmacht unit captures him and places him in a Soviet orphanage. He conceals his identity and serves as a frontline trooper with the army before being transported back to Germany as a young war hero to attend the Hitler Youth Academy. At school, he continues to conceal his identity and falls in love with a lovely young Nazi girl, but he also learns that his family has become Holocaust victims.
Before the Fall
Friedrich Weimer’s boxing skills earn him a spot at a National Political Academy (NaPolA) in 1942, one of the Nazi elite’s high schools. Friedrich enrolls, despite his father’s concerns, seeing it as his path to university and a high salary. Friedrich’s innocence is tainted by hazing, abuse, murder, and the Nazi code during his year in the seventh column (fifth form). A night in the bush seeking escaped Russian POWs brings matters to a head with his friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area’s ruler.
The bridge
During the final months of WWII, a gang of German youths is sent to guard a little bridge in their home hamlet. Truckloads of beaten, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the advancing American troops, but the youngsters, enthralled by the Nazi ideal of “blood and honor,” remain to defend the useless bridge.
Saving Private Ryan
On June 6th, 1944, after the assault of Fortress Europe, Cpt. Miller leads his unit from the 29th Infantry Division’s 2nd Ranger Battalion on a mission to identify and return Private James Francis Ryan after his brothers’ deaths. The mission takes them through Nazi-occupied country to contact Ryan’s regiment, a 101st Airborne Division detachment. This gripping war thriller not only takes the reality of history’s bloodiest conflict into regular people’s homes but also the truth of broken and lost families amid utter war.
Joy division
Thomas, a 14-year-old boy, gets conscripted into the German army in 1944. His town is destroyed, his family is killed in a bombing, and his sweetheart Melanie is raped and murdered by Russian soldiers. Thomas is brought to the Soviet Union by a Commissar and sent to a military school. Years later, Thomas joins the KGB and is deployed to serve in London during the Cold War in 1962. He meets the black Londoner Yvonne, who gives him the strength of joy, although living with ghosts from the past in continual terror and paranoia.