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What Did 'Inglourious Basterds' Get Right About WW2?

We love it, but can any historical truths be found in Tarantino's epic Inglourious Basterds?? War historian Jennifer Howe takes us through the real stories of the SS, Nazi occupation and The Richie boys, portrayed in this movie by Christoph Waltz, Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, and Mélanie Laurent. 0:00 Introduction 0:36 Overview of Inglourious Basterds 1:27 Historical context of the 1941 occupied France 2:54 Analysing Christoph Waltz's Hans Landa 4:54 Bureaucracy and systems of the Holocaust 6:15 Nazi propaganda and antisemitic rhetoric 7:59 Were German officers polite? 9:58 Did the SS knock on doors? 11:54 Real behind-the-lines missions and the Richie Boys 14:34 The myth of scalping 16:12 The mental state and decline of Adolf Hitler 19:06 We meet Shosanna hiding as Emmanuelle 22:51 Joseph Goebbels and Nazi propaganda films 27:33 Hans Landa interrogation scene 31:31 America's protection of Nazis 33:00 Kolberh (1945) Propaganda film 34:03 The Nazis burn in the theatre, ending the war? #WW2 #InglouriousBasterds #MovieReview You can now become a History Hit member right here on YouTube! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world-renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more. Get an exclusive release every week by signing up here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZwU2G-KVl-P-O-B35chZOQ/join