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When this trope is in play the efforts and contributions of the other Allies are downplayed. Some instances of this trope will act as if the only other Allied nation-state that actually did anything to fight Germany was the United Kingdom, who kept the hopeless fight alive until the USA joined in and saved the day. The non-European Allies have it even worse. When was the last time you saw an American film about the Sino-Japanese War, or Filipino guerrillas [[note]]who in some ways have the underrepresentation ''even worse'', since during this war they were part of the U.S. colonial empire, and thus, technically, Americans by extension[[/note]]? One of the most egregious examples is how the Soviet-German war on the Eastern Front is sometimes portrayed as a ''sideshow''. [[note]] Approximately [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Forces 80% of the deployable German Army]] was engaged against the Soviets on three/four Fronts in 1941-1942, dropping down to "merely" 60% in 1943-1945 when the partisan war (in the occupied USSR, Balkans, and elsewhere) intensified and Americans and Commonwealth forces opened up three new fronts in Italy, Western Europe, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_of_the_Reich over Germany]], making the Eastern Front by far the largest land combat theater of the war. The Germans lost [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#Statistical_study_by_R.C3.BCdiger_Overmans about 75% of their total dead]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#OKW_War_Diary and wounded there]], with about 1 million dead in France+Italy+Benelux+West Germany vs 4 million dead in the USSR+Poland+Romania+East Germany (and a couple hundred thousand dead in every other area). On the other hand, prisoner numbers before the final collapse of German forces in April 1945 (before which the Germans were still resisting as hard as they could) and surrender upon the 7th of May were more balanced owing to the massive encirclements (most famously during Operation Overlord, but also at the Ruhr Pocket, in Operation Dragoon, and elsewhere) made by the Americans and Commonwealth forces in France, with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_northwest_Europe the Western Allies taking 1.3 million]] soldiers prisoner in France/Benelux, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II) 0.85 million]] in Italy, and 0.15 million in North Africa (total 2.3 million troops) before April 1945 and the Soviets [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union#German_POWs_in_the_USSR only taking about 2 million]] in the East. Thus, the number of irrecoverable losses, not counting April/May surrenders, were 3.3 million against the American-led Western Allies (1 million killed, 2.3 million captured) and 5.9 million against the Soviets (4 million dead, 1.9 million captured). Thereafter the numbers were swelled by the last combat troops and the bulk of the Army logistics troops, policemen, paramilitaries, Volkssturm, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine personnel (many of whom fled West) surrendering en masse in most of April, for final prisoner totals of 5.2 million versus 3.1 million before the formal surrender, and final irrecoverable losses of 6.2 million against the Western Allies (1 million killed, 5.2 million captured) and 7.1 million against the USSR [[AndZoidberg and Poland]] (4 million killed, 3.1 million captured). And while the Soviet Union caused the most casualties the main way did so by callously throwing their own soldiers' lives away in human wave attacks to overrun German positions by sheer force of numbers alone. And the Soviet Union would often summarily execute German soldiers who surrendered, which led to the similar POW numbers.[[/note]] All of these oversights are at least partly a result of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar making American educators and filmmakers cautious to glorify [[DirtyCommunists the Soviet Union]] or [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors China]] (especially [[RedChina Maoist]] [[DirtyCommunists China]]), since this kind of stuff was virtually illegal in the United States lest one be put on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist Hollywood blacklist]]. Producers and directors even got in trouble for making films that portrayed the Soviet and Chinese communists favorably as part of the war effort later during the anti-communist fervor.
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When this trope is in play the efforts and contributions of the other Allies are downplayed. Some instances of this trope will act as if the only other Allied nation-state that actually did anything to fight Germany was the United Kingdom, who kept the hopeless fight alive until the USA joined in and saved the day. The non-European Non-European Allies have it even worse. When was worse as most are never even mentioned. The prime example being how the last time you saw an American film about Chinese theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War, or Filipino guerrillas [[note]]who in some ways have War is almost never brought up despite being just as important as the underrepresentation ''even worse'', since during this war they were part fighting in Europe.[[note]] This theater was the very reason why Imperial Japan got involved in the greater World War and was an important theater for keeping a good portion of the U.S. colonial empire, Imperial Japanese Army occupied as American and thus, technically, Americans by extension[[/note]]? Western Allied forces slowly moved towards the Japanese mainland in the Pacific theater.[[/note]] One of the most egregious examples is how the Soviet-German war on the Eastern Front is sometimes portrayed as a ''sideshow''. ''sideshow'' despite being one of the most important theaters of the entire war.[[note]] Approximately [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Forces 80% of the deployable German Army]] was engaged against the Soviets on three/four Fronts in 1941-1942, dropping Soviets, which dropped down to "merely" 60% in 1943-1945 when the partisan war (in the occupied USSR, Balkans, and elsewhere) intensified and Americans and Commonwealth forces opened up three Western Allies began opening new fronts in Italy, Western Europe, Italy and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_of_the_Reich over Germany]], then later in France, making the Eastern Front by far the largest land combat theater of the war. The Germans lost [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#Statistical_study_by_R.C3.BCdiger_Overmans about 75% of their total dead]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#OKW_War_Diary and wounded there]], with about 1 million dead in France+Italy+Benelux+West Germany vs 4 million dead in the USSR+Poland+Romania+East Germany (and a couple hundred thousand dead in every other area). On the other hand, prisoner numbers before the final collapse of German forces in April 1945 (before which the Germans were still resisting as hard as they could) and surrender upon the 7th of May were more balanced owing to the massive encirclements (most famously during Operation Overlord, but also at the Ruhr Pocket, in Operation Dragoon, and elsewhere) made by the Americans and Commonwealth forces in France, with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_northwest_Europe the Western Allies taking 1.3 million]] soldiers prisoner in France/Benelux, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II) 0.85 million]] in Italy, and 0.15 million in North Africa (total 2.3 million troops) before April 1945 and the Soviets [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union#German_POWs_in_the_USSR only taking about 2 million]] in the East. Thus, the number of irrecoverable losses, not counting April/May surrenders, were 3.3 million against the American-led Western Allies (1 million killed, 2.3 million captured) and 5.9 million against the Soviets (4 million dead, 1.9 million captured). Thereafter the numbers were swelled by the last combat troops and the bulk of the Army logistics troops, policemen, paramilitaries, Volkssturm, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine personnel (many of whom fled West) surrendering en masse in most of April, for final prisoner totals of 5.2 million versus 3.1 million before the formal surrender, and final irrecoverable losses of 6.2 million against the Western Allies (1 million killed, 5.2 million captured) and 7.1 million against the USSR [[AndZoidberg and Poland]] (4 million killed, 3.1 million captured). And while the Soviet Union caused the most casualties the main way did so by callously throwing their own soldiers' lives away in human wave attacks to overrun German positions by sheer force of numbers alone. And the Soviet Union would often summarily execute German soldiers who surrendered, which led to the similar POW numbers.war.[[/note]] All of these oversights are at least partly a result of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar making American educators and filmmakers cautious to glorify [[DirtyCommunists the Soviet Union]] or [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors China]] (especially [[RedChina Maoist]] [[DirtyCommunists China]]), since this kind of stuff was virtually illegal in the United States lest one be put on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist Hollywood blacklist]]. Producers and directors even got in trouble for making films that portrayed the Soviet and Chinese communists favorably as part of the war effort later during the anti-communist fervor.
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The D-Day landings are another good example[[note]]Out of five divisions present, two were American, two British, and one Canadian[[/note]]. Many American-made productions will focus solely on Omaha Beach, the most heavily fortified of the five landing sites as well as the best-defended--both facts which Allied intelligence failed to realize prior to the operation. The carnage that ensued is a favourite among producers, since it emphasizes the sacrifice Americans made during the war--but doing so gives the impression that Omaha Beach was ''the'' decisive turning point that led to the Allied victory in Europe, rather than the dual blows by the their allies at Stalingrad and El Alamein a two years earlier and followed up at Kursk.[[note]]Hardly anyone in the West knows about Operation Bagration, the Red Army's summer offensive in 1944 that was loosely timed to coincide with Allied landings in the West and their breakthrough in Italy. By the autumn of 1944, the Russians had completely annihilated a whole German Army corps and thrown the germans almost completely out of the USSR, and were well inside Poland, Romania and northern Yugoslavia.[[/note]] The focus on Omaha Beach is also partially because ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' did it, [[FollowTheLeader other games/movies/TV shows want to replicate its success]], and because it's more exciting to show a strongly opposed landing than an unopposed one -- not that the other landings were exactly unopposed (for instance, Canadian troops landing at Juno Beach on that day faced opposition almost as formidable, with a ''full-blown tank battle'' raging right on the beach, but punched through quickly and made the best progress of any Allied force towards their objectives on that Longest Day in spite of it[[note]]Due to better small-unit communication and leadership, something the military training of smaller nation-states tends to emphasize given their lesser material resources. Not to mention that the Canadians accepted Britain's "Hobart's Funnies" line of specialized-function tanks to give the landing troops armor support.[[/note]]), but still.
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The D-Day landings are another good example[[note]]Out of five divisions present, two were American, two British, and one Canadian[[/note]]. Many American-made productions will focus solely on Omaha Beach, the most heavily fortified of the five landing sites as well as the best-defended--both facts which Allied intelligence failed to realize prior to the operation. The carnage that ensued is a favourite favorite among producers, since it emphasizes the sacrifice Americans made during the war--but doing so gives the impression that Omaha Beach was ''the'' decisive turning point that led to the Allied victory in Europe, rather than the dual blows by the their allies at Stalingrad and El Alamein a two years earlier and followed up at Kursk.[[note]]Hardly anyone in the West knows about Operation Bagration, the Red Army's summer offensive in 1944 that was loosely timed to coincide with Allied landings in the West and their breakthrough in Italy. By the autumn of 1944, the Russians had completely annihilated a whole German Army corps and thrown the germans almost completely out of the USSR, and were well inside Poland, Romania and northern Yugoslavia.[[/note]] The focus on Omaha Beach is also partially because ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' did it, [[FollowTheLeader other games/movies/TV shows want to replicate its success]], and because it's more exciting to show a strongly opposed landing than an unopposed one -- not that the other landings were exactly unopposed (for instance, Canadian troops landing at Juno Beach on that day faced opposition almost as formidable, with a ''full-blown tank battle'' raging right on the beach, but punched through quickly and made the best progress of any Allied force towards their objectives on that Longest Day in spite of it[[note]]Due to better small-unit communication and leadership, something the military training of smaller nation-states tends to emphasize given their lesser material resources. Not to mention that the Canadians accepted Britain's "Hobart's Funnies" line of specialized-function tanks to give the landing troops armor support.[[/note]]), but still.
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When this trope is in play the efforts and contributions of the other Allies are downplayed. Egregiously, the Soviet-German war is considered a ''sideshow'' - if it's even mentioned at all. Approximately [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Forces 80% of the deployable German Army]] was engaged against the Soviets on three/four Fronts in 1941-1942, dropping down to "merely" 60% in 1943-1945 when the partisan war (in the occupied USSR, Balkans, and elsewhere) intensified and Americans and Commonwealth forces opened up three new fronts in Italy, Western Europe, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_of_the_Reich over Germany]], making the Eastern Front by far the largest land combat theater of the war. The Germans lost [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#Statistical_study_by_R.C3.BCdiger_Overmans about 75% of their total dead]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#OKW_War_Diary and wounded there]], with about 1 million dead in France+Italy+Benelux+West Germany vs 4 million dead in the USSR+Poland+Romania+East Germany (and a couple hundred thousand dead in every other area). On the other hand, prisoner numbers before the final collapse of German forces in April 1945 (before which the Germans were still resisting as hard as they could) and surrender upon the 7th of May were more balanced owing to the massive encirclements (most famously during Operation Overlord, but also at the Ruhr Pocket, in Operation Dragoon, and elsewhere) made by the Americans and Commonwealth forces in France, with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_northwest_Europe the Western Allies taking 1.3 million]] soldiers prisoner in France/Benelux, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II) 0.85 million]] in Italy, and 0.15 million in North Africa (total 2.3 million troops) before April 1945 and the Soviets [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union#German_POWs_in_the_USSR only taking about 2 million]] in the East. Thus, the number of irrecoverable losses, not counting April/May surrenders, were 3.3 million against the American-led Western Allies (1 million killed, 2.3 million captured) and 5.9 million against the Soviets (4 million dead, 1.9 million captured). Thereafter the numbers were swelled by the last combat troops and the bulk of the Army logistics troops, policemen, paramilitaries, Volkssturm, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine personnel (many of whom fled West) surrendering en masse in most of April, for final prisoner totals of 5.2 million versus 3.1 million before the formal surrender, and final irrecoverable losses of 6.2 million against the Western Allies (1 million killed, 5.2 million captured) and 7.1 million against the USSR [[AndZoidberg and Poland]] (4 million killed, 3.1 million captured). And while the Soviet Union caused the most casualties the main way did so by callously throwing their own soldiers' lives away in human wave attacks to overrun German positions by sheer force of numbers alone. And the Soviet Union would often summarily execute German soldiers who surrendered, which led to the similar POW numbers.
Often it is portrayed as if the only other Allied nation-state that actually did anything to fight Germany was the UK, which (after the Poles and French were conquered ) kept the hopeless fight alive until the USA joined in and saved the day. The non-European Allies have it even worse. When was the last time you saw an American film about the Sino-Japanese War, or Filipino guerrillas [[note]]who in some ways have the underrepresentation ''even worse'', since during this war they were part of the U.S. colonial empire, and thus, technically, Americans by extension[[/note]]? All these oversights are at least partly a result of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar making American educators and filmmakers cautious to glorify [[DirtyCommunists the Soviet Union]] or [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors China]] (especially [[RedChina Maoist]] [[DirtyCommunists China]]), since this kind of stuff was virtually illegal in the United States lest one be put on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist Hollywood blacklist]]. Producers and directors even got in trouble for making films that portrayed the Soviet and Chinese communists favorably as part of the war effort later during the anti-communist fervor.
Often it is portrayed as if the only other Allied nation-state that actually did anything to fight Germany was the UK, which (after the Poles and French were conquered ) kept the hopeless fight alive until the USA joined in and saved the day. The non-European Allies have it even worse. When was the last time you saw an American film about the Sino-Japanese War, or Filipino guerrillas [[note]]who in some ways have the underrepresentation ''even worse'', since during this war they were part of the U.S. colonial empire, and thus, technically, Americans by extension[[/note]]? All these oversights are at least partly a result of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar making American educators and filmmakers cautious to glorify [[DirtyCommunists the Soviet Union]] or [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors China]] (especially [[RedChina Maoist]] [[DirtyCommunists China]]), since this kind of stuff was virtually illegal in the United States lest one be put on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist Hollywood blacklist]]. Producers and directors even got in trouble for making films that portrayed the Soviet and Chinese communists favorably as part of the war effort later during the anti-communist fervor.
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When this trope is in play the efforts and contributions of the other Allies are downplayed. Egregiously, Some instances of this trope will act as if the only other Allied nation-state that actually did anything to fight Germany was the United Kingdom, who kept the hopeless fight alive until the USA joined in and saved the day. The non-European Allies have it even worse. When was the last time you saw an American film about the Sino-Japanese War, or Filipino guerrillas [[note]]who in some ways have the underrepresentation ''even worse'', since during this war they were part of the U.S. colonial empire, and thus, technically, Americans by extension[[/note]]? One of the most egregious examples is how the Soviet-German war on the Eastern Front is considered sometimes portrayed as a ''sideshow'' - if it's even mentioned at all. ''sideshow''. [[note]] Approximately [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Forces 80% of the deployable German Army]] was engaged against the Soviets on three/four Fronts in 1941-1942, dropping down to "merely" 60% in 1943-1945 when the partisan war (in the occupied USSR, Balkans, and elsewhere) intensified and Americans and Commonwealth forces opened up three new fronts in Italy, Western Europe, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_of_the_Reich over Germany]], making the Eastern Front by far the largest land combat theater of the war. The Germans lost [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#Statistical_study_by_R.C3.BCdiger_Overmans about 75% of their total dead]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#OKW_War_Diary and wounded there]], with about 1 million dead in France+Italy+Benelux+West Germany vs 4 million dead in the USSR+Poland+Romania+East Germany (and a couple hundred thousand dead in every other area). On the other hand, prisoner numbers before the final collapse of German forces in April 1945 (before which the Germans were still resisting as hard as they could) and surrender upon the 7th of May were more balanced owing to the massive encirclements (most famously during Operation Overlord, but also at the Ruhr Pocket, in Operation Dragoon, and elsewhere) made by the Americans and Commonwealth forces in France, with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_northwest_Europe the Western Allies taking 1.3 million]] soldiers prisoner in France/Benelux, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II) 0.85 million]] in Italy, and 0.15 million in North Africa (total 2.3 million troops) before April 1945 and the Soviets [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union#German_POWs_in_the_USSR only taking about 2 million]] in the East. Thus, the number of irrecoverable losses, not counting April/May surrenders, were 3.3 million against the American-led Western Allies (1 million killed, 2.3 million captured) and 5.9 million against the Soviets (4 million dead, 1.9 million captured). Thereafter the numbers were swelled by the last combat troops and the bulk of the Army logistics troops, policemen, paramilitaries, Volkssturm, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine personnel (many of whom fled West) surrendering en masse in most of April, for final prisoner totals of 5.2 million versus 3.1 million before the formal surrender, and final irrecoverable losses of 6.2 million against the Western Allies (1 million killed, 5.2 million captured) and 7.1 million against the USSR [[AndZoidberg and Poland]] (4 million killed, 3.1 million captured). And while the Soviet Union caused the most casualties the main way did so by callously throwing their own soldiers' lives away in human wave attacks to overrun German positions by sheer force of numbers alone. And the Soviet Union would often summarily execute German soldiers who surrendered, which led to the similar POW numbers.
Often it is portrayed as if the only other Allied nation-state that actually did anything to fight Germany was the UK, which (after the Poles and French were conquered ) kept the hopeless fight alive until the USA joined in and saved the day. The non-European Allies have it even worse. When was the last time you saw an American film about the Sino-Japanese War, or Filipino guerrillas [[note]]who in some ways have the underrepresentation ''even worse'', since during this war they were part of the U.S. colonial empire, and thus, technically, Americans by extension[[/note]]?numbers.[[/note]] All of these oversights are at least partly a result of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar making American educators and filmmakers cautious to glorify [[DirtyCommunists the Soviet Union]] or [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors China]] (especially [[RedChina Maoist]] [[DirtyCommunists China]]), since this kind of stuff was virtually illegal in the United States lest one be put on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist Hollywood blacklist]]. Producers and directors even got in trouble for making films that portrayed the Soviet and Chinese communists favorably as part of the war effort later during the anti-communist fervor.
Often it is portrayed as if the only other Allied nation-state that actually did anything to fight Germany was the UK, which (after the Poles and French were conquered ) kept the hopeless fight alive until the USA joined in and saved the day. The non-European Allies have it even worse. When was the last time you saw an American film about the Sino-Japanese War, or Filipino guerrillas [[note]]who in some ways have the underrepresentation ''even worse'', since during this war they were part of the U.S. colonial empire, and thus, technically, Americans by extension[[/note]]?
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** Discussed in the [[Franchise/AmericanGirlsCollection]] book Happy Birthday, Molly! Emily, an English [[BlitzEvacuees Blitz refugee girl]], is staying at Molly's house for awhile. This trope is mentioned when a radio broadcast claims that it's up to arriving American troops to save the British and the world from the Nazis. Emily is offended by this, complaining that she's tired of hearing how America is winning the war when British troops have been fighting for so much longer. This then leads to Emily and Molly having a big argument the night before Molly's birthday.
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** Discussed in the [[Franchise/AmericanGirlsCollection]] book Happy Birthday, Molly! Emily, an English BlitzEvacuee is staying at Molly's house for awhile. This trope is mentioned when a radio broadcast claims that it's up to arriving American troops to save the British and the world from the Nazis. Emily is offended by this, complaining that she's tired of hearing how America is winning the war when British troops have been fighting for so much longer. This then leads to Emily and Molly having a big argument the night before Molly's birthday.
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** Discussed in the [[Franchise/AmericanGirlsCollection]] book Happy Birthday, Molly! Emily, an English BlitzEvacuee [[BlitzEvacuees Blitz refugee girl]], is staying at Molly's house for awhile. This trope is mentioned when a radio broadcast claims that it's up to arriving American troops to save the British and the world from the Nazis. Emily is offended by this, complaining that she's tired of hearing how America is winning the war when British troops have been fighting for so much longer. This then leads to Emily and Molly having a big argument the night before Molly's birthday.
