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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>}}
|'''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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* ''Sahara''
* ''[[The English Patient]]''
* ''[[SaloSalò, Oror Thethe 120 Days Ofof Sodom]]'' - torture porn at its most depraved, the setting of Fascist Italy is really just an excuse for... icky stuff.
* ''[[The Rat Patrol]]''
* ''[[A Walk in the Sun]]''
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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.
* ''[[WeveWe've Never Been Licked]]''
* ''[[1941]]'', though this one is a comedy.
 
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* ''[[Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe]]''
* ''B-17 Flying Fortress''
* The ''[[1942]]'' series of [[Shoot 'Em UpsUp]]—ats—at least most of the series anyway—is very loosely based on WWII.
* 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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