YMMV / De Nuremberg à Nuremberg

• And You Thought It Would Fail: Public French TV producers were not very keen on producing and broadcasting such a documentary in France at the time. According to the film's narrator Philippe Meyer, their reactions varied from "People are not interested in World War II" to "it's too horrible/depressing for the general public on prime time schedules". The film turned out to have strong audience rates and was part of a wave of renewed interest among the French public in World War II and The Holocaust in The '80s along with Shoah and the highly publicized trial of Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie.
• Awesome Music:
  • The haunting Drone of Dread soundtrack by Vangelis, which gives War Is Hell a whole new meaning.
  • The many German and Soviet army songs are quite catchy. The latter ones are those of the Red Army Choirs to Glorious Mother Russia effect, particularly the Russian "Partisans" song when the tide is turning in Stalingrad.
• Stock Footage Failure:
  • Some footage from the Tag der deutschen Kunst ("Day of German Art") parades in Munich (which started in 1937) got thrown in the montage of parades that took place at the Nuremberg Congress of 1934 right when the film starts. Specifically, it's the swastika parade floats surrounded by people dressed as priests with a swastika at the center of their robes (which undeniably gives off the vibe of a cult).
  • Philippe Meyer says the name of the famous "Weeping Frenchman" was Jacques Bonsergent, a 28 year old civilian who was shot by the Germans on December 23, 1940. It was not Bonsergent, and the guy from the footage looks well over 28.
  • Some footage from Odessa and Minsk during Operation Barbarossa (summer-winter 1941) got thrown in the Battle of Stalingrad (summer 1942-early 1943) chapter, which was not part of Barbarossa nor covered the same areas.
  • The famous footage of a German Panther tank getting destroyed by American Shermans in Cologne in April 1945 is somehow attributed to the Battle of Berlin, in which no American ground troops even took part. The Red Army did have lend-lease Shermans, but those were used where less resistance was expected from the Germans by spring 1945, such as in Austria.

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