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[[File:world war two 170.jpg|frame|Humanity's best and worst were displayed for all the world to see.]]
{{quote|''"I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?"''
|'''Joseph Goebbels''', 1943 <ref>The guy was a [[Complete Monster]], but his words ''here'' sum up the general feel of the war.</ref>}}
The roots of humanity's greatest conflict go back centuries, but the immediate causes of the war lay in the resolution of the [[World War I|First World War]] and the Great Depression.
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*** Another reason was that British intelligence believed (correctly) that the Nazi High Command was inclined to expect the attack at Calais, where the Channel is narrowest. As it is usually easiest to deceive the enemy with the appearance of what they expect, considerable efforts were made to create the illusion that the attack would occur at Calais. The deceit worked so well that Hitler and the Nazi High Command continued to believe that the Normandy landings were diversionary for long enough that they were irrevocably entrenched by the time forces began to be repositioned to try to stop them.
* [[America Wins the War]]: To this day, many Westerners do not appreciate the extent to which the war in Europe was mainly fought and mostly decided on the Eastern Front.<ref>Though this is balanced out by how notoriously unhelpful they were in the Pacific Front; they didn't even let the Allies use their Pacific ports to bomb Japan.</ref>
** The World War II monument in Washington DC states "[http://lh3.ggpht.com/_pVXrYi8s2rM/Sui2hpM0sEI/AAAAAAAACDY/0f-Pa3th1DM/DSCF2893%5B10%5D.jpg Americans came to liberate, not to conquer]"
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: And they do.
* [[Awakening the Sleeping Giant]]: Maybe bombing Pearl Harbor wasn't such a good idea.
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* ''Sahara''
* ''[[The English Patient]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[The Rat Patrol]]''
* ''[[A Walk in the Sun]]''
==== Southern Europe ====
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* ''633 Squadron''
* ''[[Catch-22]]''
* ''[[Twelve O'Clock High]]''
* Both versions of ''Memphis Belle''
* ''Reach for the Sky''
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* ''[[A League of Their Own]]''
* ''[[The Best Years of Our Lives]]'' concerns the efforts of three ex-servicemen to readjust to life in the States immediately ''after'' the war.
* ''[[
* ''[[1941]]'', though this one is a comedy.
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* ''[[Bomb Girls]]''
* ''Changi'': an Australian miniseries set in the titular Singaporean POW camp.
* ''[[Combat! (TV series)|Combat!]]''
* ''[[Dad's Army|Dads Army]]''
* Four ''[[Doctor Who]]'' stories - "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26/E03 The Curse of Fenric|The Curse of Fenric]]", "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E09 The Empty Child|The Empty Child]]"/"[[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E10 The Doctor Dances|The Doctor Dances]]", "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E03 Victory of the Daleks|Victory of the Daleks]]" and "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2011 CS the Doctor the Widow and the Wardrobe|The Doctor The Widow and the Wardrobe]]."
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* ''[[Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe]]''
* ''B-17 Flying Fortress''
* The ''[[1942]]'' series of [[Shoot
* The Pacific campaign of ''[[Empire Earth]]: Art of Conquest''.
* ''[[Clock Tower|Clock Tower 3]]'' features the protagonist evading a serial killer during the London bombings.
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