Just finished watching Come and See (1985). An absolutely brutal depiction of the life of a Belarusian child who tries to join anti-fascist partisan forces in 1942 only to find his entire country and everything he knew ripped apart by Nazi "combat gangs" which actually burned nearly 700 Belarusian villages to the ground in addition to killing 40,000 civilians in Poland and participating in many other atrocities. An incredibly difficult watch, but well worth it.
Nazi violence was so disgustingly widespread and so basely cruel. A war machine of industrial wealthmaking turned to enable the massacre of countless people all across Europe through the use of roving bands of highly-equipped militias. Sickening.
@DemonMama and on that note, it's interesting how this movie is often listed as one of the greatest "war movies" ever, because there isn't really much actual like combat depicted, rather it depicts the extreme human toll of the outrageously heinous war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi war machine
@DemonMama Yeah that was a great watch, albeit an extremely brutal one. One of my favorite movies.
US Media is so often missing the Eastern European perspective on how outrageously fucking devastating WW2 was for the USSR and the rest of eastern europe, especially in Belarus