Talk:The World at War

Screenshots?
Doesn't need to be screenshots from the series itself, but perhaps some relevant images to go with the text as has been done with e.g. The Life of Birds. Richard001 (talk) 07:52, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

"is currently being broadcast in the UK on the UKTV History channel at 3pm every weekday"
Could we please have a specific date, or at least year? "Currently" is a very bad word to use on Wikipedia, as it quickly becomes out of date. 86.136.252.214 (talk) 19:48, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Removed, as UKTV History aren't showing it after this weekend boffy_b (talk) 16:07, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4bd_1264726972

War Crime?
According to the article, Karl Wolff "admitted to witnessing a large-scale execution in Himmler's presence, thus effectively convicting himself of a war crime on television. No prosecution of Wolff followed, however."

The probable reason that "no prosecution . . . followed" is that merely witnessing a crime, without more, does not make a person guilty of the crime. Did Wolff have anything to do with the execution? Was he able to stop it? If the answer to these questions is no, then he has no responsibility for the crime. Do not fall into the trap of thinking that everyone who saw anything bad is a war criminal.

John Paul Parks (talk) 06:42, 6 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, I'm going to remove this (added here). A lot of people witnessed large scale executions - unless there is a suggestion that they were somehow able to stop them I don't see any reason why they would be expected to be prosecuted. Richard001 (talk) 08:18, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Wolff would only be liable to prosecution if there was something he could have reasonably done to prevent the killings and he did not do it. As there was noting he could have done without almost certainly losing his own life, then he was not guilty of anything.


 * As a rough guide Germans accused of a war crime were not expected to face war crimes tribunals if there was nothing they could have done to prevent a war crime being carried out, or if it meant them almost certainly losing their own lives by trying to do so.


 * Generally those who faced the tribunals were either those who made the decisions to carry out a war crime, or were people who, under orders or not, carried out war crimes when they had an alternative to doing so without unduly risking, or losing, their own lives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.150.10.148 (talk) 16:51, 24 November 2017 (UTC)


 * There's a duty in german law to act, accuse, hinder (a.s.o.) a crime when witnessed. Doing nothing amounts to "unterlassene Hilfeleistung" (willfully neglection of due help). If that mass-execution was deemed a war-crime according to german military law and those international conventions of warfare Germany signed, then Karl Wolff would have indeed deemed to be guilty - unless certain amnesty-related circumstances would to be applied for his sake (being a witness during the Nuremberg-Trial implies such status for him maybe?)...

Just not being able to do something about it at that very moment, did not relieve him from juridical action afterwards. Although it would have been the german justice system to be concerned.--77.187.79.230 (talk) 18:02, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Cost
The figure of £4m for cost of production has been altered to the £900,000 sum mentioned in the Making of the Series episode in the World at War DVD series. The producer Jeremy Issacs approached the board at Thames with an original figure of £400,000 but this soon mushroomed to the above amount. Prior to 1970 British TV companies were taxed on revenue but Government policy changed that year so they were taxed on profit as long as the companies spent the extra income on programming. As such the increased costs did not worry Thames as effectively the Exchequer was paying. (unsigned)

Extra Episodes
Several of the listed bonus episodes WERE broadcast in later runs; in particular, I have "The Death of Hitler" on a tape that I made around 1990, and I'd seen it on tv earlier, around 1975. CFLeon (talk) 01:53, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin
Before you add a fact tag go here and scroll down. --R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 02:16, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Changes to the lede
I strongly recommend that the slow moving edit war in the lede come to a quick cessation. Continuance may result in blocks and page protection. I suggest that everyone read WP:BRD and WP:LEDE. The talk page is the place to discuss disputed changes to the lede and where we can arrive at consensus. The biting of newcomers and accusations of vandalism are unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Now: let's get to work... – Lionel (talk) 04:22, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Blu-ray Transfer Aspect Ratio
Hey, there is a bit of controversy about the blu-ray transfers. Fremantle Media cropped the image from 3:4 to 16:9.

Here are some review sights that mention the issue (though they agree that the upgraded image is better than the DVDs, at least until such a time that they are re-released in the correct ratio).Xgamerms999 (talk) 07:07, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Whatever opinion an individual reviewer may exercise, the cropping out of 1/3 of the area of uniquely available (to the average viewer) archival images and movie film footage represents something more than an aesthetic decision. This aside from aesthetic and informational considerations arising from cropping and scanning done during the production of the series. The technician(s) responsible for the conversion to 16:9 could not be expected to have the same academic concerns as the original creators of the series. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.215.115.31 (talk) 21:04, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Plagiarism
Parts of this entry are lifted entirely from various sources without attribution. While the sources used for these unattributed sections are referenced for other portions of the entry, they are not always properly cited when they are used again. You cannot just cite a source once and then proceed to use whatever you want from that source from then on out without citation. An example would be the last sentence of the lede. It is lifted verbatim from a piece written by Max Hastings in The Daily Mail. However it is not cited as such, although the preceding portion of the lede is cited.74.138.44.226 (talk) 12:52, 14 January 2013 (UTC) Seems you can. Rather than criticising, why don't you add the citations yourself? Wikipedia is prepared by anonymous individuals not professional writers. John2o2o2o (talk) 00:53, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * Seems ok Dr Sludge (talk) 10:48, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Series cost inflation
The article states twice that the series cost £900,000 to make (uncited). In the lead this is equated to £7.5 million in 2015, but in the main article though this is equated to £13 million in 2016. Using one of those online inflation calculator things turned up £10,727,739.00, which is sortof between the two - is there a reliable way to check this? Bob talk 22:02, 5 January 2017 (UTC) Doubt it. (1) You can probably only estimate it. (2) It's really not that important. John2o2o2o (talk) 00:51, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

website for The World At War
The URL has been defunct for about 7 years. I don't see where I can change it but the last known archived URL is: https://web.archive.org/web/20130825221920/http://www.theworldatwar.com/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.96.155.204 (talk) 03:54, 7 September 2020 (UTC)