What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Rating: Null/10 (18 July 2000)

A pretty good film overall, I thought. The one exception was the outrageous scene where British troops are shown locking innocent women and children inside a church and burning it down. Nothing like that ever happened in the revolution. But it did happen in World War II, when troops of the Nazi SS 2nd Panzer Division burned the church in Oradur, France in June 1944. If what I read in the papers is accurate, German-born director Roland Emmerich insisted on including this scene in spite of the objections of historians.
I find it interesting that a German director should insist on attributing to the British - who helped beat Hitler, after all -an atrocity that was in fact commtted by his own kind. Perhaps some journalist should ask Emmerich what his old man was doing in the summer of '44....