I have just finished watching the BBC production of Dunkirk,i've had to sit and collect my thoughts, for a while.but i think the programme is a credit to the BBC.Excellent use of period footage,narration and drama based on personnel accounts of those involved in what must be one of this countries darkest hours.can't understand why it's on BBC2 and not BBC1 though. while watching it, i felt anger,frustration,relief and hope all mixed together.but by the end especially after what happened to the Men from The Royal Warwicks,i felt NUMB. Steven
Missed it last night as I was in Belgium, but am watching it now - great series and a real credit to the BBC. I hope it is the shape of things to come with all the 1944 material that is in the pipeline.
Well we've had part two now,what did you all think ??.not quiet as shocking as part one,but gripping none the less. the looks on the faces of the cockle boat crew as they approached the beach,as they relised what they had led themselves in for and just how bad it really was.that was a real Jaw Dropping moment.you realy had to feel for them when they had to ask soldiers to get off the boat and had to practically push them over the side,because they had run aground.both scenes were well acted as indeed was the whole programme. well done BBC STEVEN
I've given my detailed comments on another forum, but overall thought it was good. What evidence is there that Major Angus McCorquodale of the Coldstreams actually shot a Captain from the 5th Border Regt who defied his order not to withdraw on the Bergues-Furnes canal? This was graphically presented as fact in the third episode of the BBC series but the accounts I have read are more ambiguous (implying that he discouraged him from retreating by firing towards him rather than actually AT him)). It should be relatively easy to work out who the officer was, if one had a mind to do so...
Yes, I thought this was as good a drama doc as we've seen in recent years. More like it please. Obviously limited resources, but this didn't interfere. Mark - do you recall the name of the officer who was connected with the Warwicks massacre? I think it was Moncke or something like that. Did anything ever come of Jeff Rooker's campaign to have him prosecuted for war crimes? Or am I 'misremembering'?? Simon
Wilhelm Mohnke was the Officer. He survived the war and was still alive when doorstepped by Roger Cook in the early 1990's. He was never brought to justice, although Wormhoudt was not the only atrocity he was implicated in. I will post a fuller biography of him when my reference books are to hand.
Has anything come to light over the question from Mark earlier in this thread about the shooting for the Border Regt officer? I feel that the media have a responsibility to be as trueful as possible when using real names and people, one of my pet soap boxes was the film Titanic showing a crew member shooting passengers, in the film the shooter is named as a real member of the crew.
