Completed.... "Battle For Berlin"

[grumpa]

Incredible work!

Thanks so much Gavin, so glad you like it.............Jim

[grumpa]

Great work! All looks very realistic! I actually feel sorry for them Germans

If you feel sorry for these guys Jack, think of the almost 3 million German soldiers and civilians (women and children) who perished from starvation, disease , exposure
and brutality at the hands of...no, not the Russians... The allies!... in concentration camps across Europe after the war while excess food ,medicines ,tents and blankets rotted at the docks or were sold into the black markets....purposeful genocide ala Eisenhower.

[Guest]

The biggest problems with war crimes is that it's the winners who dictate who's judged and convicted.
Life isn't fair, but we must learn from our mistakes and we must make sure the history "we know" is the actual history and not something cobbled up.
I've studied enough history to know how little of the printed history is actually accurate and true. Luckily we're much better at this today, in the civilised parts anyway... but only just.

One sad example is the history about the conflict in Northern Ireland. Whilst growing up I always wondered about IRA and why there was a conflict? The Swedish history books in school omitted this with a couple of lines that didn't say anything - and the little there was felt totally wrong?!
It wasn't until I moved to UK and eventually actively decided to learn the history about Northern Ireland (by the help of a couple of Irish colleagues, both north and south) and it was a revelation to say the least... It turned out that the truth conflicted with the family who owns, writes, prints and distributes ALL school books in Sweden?! There is only one problem here and that is that you can't accuse them for censoring history since this family is of a sensitive origin...

Since then I've had to reevaluate all the history, and geography, I learned in school and there were huge parts that had to be corrected in my brain.
Quite clever actually to tweak history and back it up with tweaked maps. That way you can't find the truth even when looking for errors...

This had nothing to do with scale modelling, but when researching scale models we have to verify history and sometimes we discover alternate facts and it'd be wrong not to voice this in hope humanity can better itself. I'm at least trying to by learning actual history.

[grumpa]

The biggest problems with war crimes is that it's the winners who dictate who's judged and convicted.
Life isn't fair, but we must learn from our mistakes and we must make sure the history "we know" is the actual history and not something cobbled up.
I've studied enough history to know how little of the printed history is actually accurate and true. Luckily we're much better at this today, in the civilised parts anyway... but only just.

One sad example is the history about the conflict in Northern Ireland. Whilst growing up I always wondered about IRA and why there was a conflict? The Swedish history books in school omitted this with a couple of lines that didn't say anything - and the little there was felt totally wrong?!
It wasn't until I moved to UK and eventually actively decided to learn the history about Northern Ireland (by the help of a couple of Irish colleagues, both north and south) and it was a revelation to say the least... It turned out that the truth conflicted with the family who owns, writes, prints and distributes ALL school books in Sweden?! There is only one problem here and that is that you can't accuse them for censoring history since this family is of a sensitive origin...

Since then I've had to reevaluate all the history, and geography, I learned in school and there were huge parts that had to be corrected in my brain.
Quite clever actually to tweak history and back it up with tweaked maps. That way you can't find the truth even when looking for errors...

This had nothing to do with scale modelling, but when researching scale models we have to verify history and sometimes we discover alternate facts and it'd be wrong not to voice this in hope humanity can better itself. I'm at least trying to by learning actual history.

"Actual" history is a flying enigma Jens, printed by those who wish to benefit from it in some way. Eisenhower harbored a deep hatred for the German people especially after viewing the horrors of the death camps but his ire was misdirected for the most part and he leveled his wrath against those who for all intents and purposes were probably the least responsible for such atrocities.

A very enlightening book was written on this subject called 'Other Losses' (the authors name evades me at the mo) which was how this intentional "culling" of the German people
was referred to back then and a major cover up ensued. Pretty effective I might add since most so called WW2 "experts" never even heard of such an atrocity perpetrated by those who piously saw themselves as champions of freedom and justice.ops:

Jim

[monica]

great work Jim,do real like the darkness to his one,always enjoy seeing your work,well done,
cnnot add to whats been said,

[grumpa]

great work Jim,do real like the darkness to his one,always enjoy seeing your work,well done,
cnnot add to whats been said,

Thank you Monica, so glad you like it.
I know it's a disturbing episode in ww2, to think that the allies sat back at the Elbe River and allowed the Soviet monsters to almost utterly destroy a great city, to have pushed back east millions of defenseless refugees trying to escape the murderous onslaught at gunpoint because we "didn't know if we could feed them" no...better to let them be doomed to
the cruelest destruction.
Take a breath Jimops:

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One for the newbies :smirk:

[Jim F]

Hi Jim,
That's a cracking diorama, plenty of eye catching details, how big is the base ?
regards Jim

[Jim R]

Hi Jim
Very well done. Full of detail, great composition and it tells the story. The building and ground work really says "destruction".
Jim

[grumpa]

Hi Jim,
That's a cracking diorama, plenty of eye catching details, how big is the base ?
regards Jim

Thanks Jim glad you like it, base is 17 inches by 27 inches

[Jim F]

Hi Jim,
Thanks for that I thought it was a fair old size.
Jim

[grumpa]

Hi Jim,
Thanks for that I thought it was a fair old size.
Jim

Yeah it's a good size, another biggie in the works, just got to do some finishing up on some current work first.

Jim

[Guest]

Brutal... awesome job!!!

[bazers]

Great work Jim also love all the buildings did not know it was yours but thought it had your hallmarks then saw the poor sod with half his leg missing then I new it was yours:smiling3:.
PS missed this one don't tend to look at dio forum much.

[geegad]

you have done a cracking diorama jim lots of action to see and storys top work