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Rating: Null/10 (2 March 2001)

Just a couple of things :
first of all I would like to say that "History is written by winners", please think about that. Hollywood productions don't give any objective account of WW2.
Regarding "Saving Private Ryan" : at the beginning of the movie 2 hundred *poor* Americans are ruthlessly slaughtered by a punch of faceless "Huns" who are defending the beach. At the end of the movie an *heroic* punch of Americans are defending a bridge by killing 2 hundred SS and by destroying 2 Tiger tanks with sticky bombs (!) and hand-thrown mortar ammunitions (!!).
In both cases Germans are dumb and on the wrong side, either as killers or as victims!
It is my opinion that soldiers of both armies were equally forced to fight by orders from above and inspired by boastful belief. There is nothing really heroic in war.
If you want to find a more believable perspective of operation Overlord try Max Hasting's book "Overlord" (1984). You'll learn much more about the poor performance of American infantry and "evil" Germans' fighting prowess.