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Do you watch any of them? Its not like they are making Hitler out to be a good guy!

The World At War is regarded by some as the finest ever piece of British documentary making. Its brilliant. Narrated by Laurence Olivier. As a side note, I'm stunned to see that it cost over £11m to make in today's money. That's mental!

I don't know what sort of documentaries are shown there, but when I was growing up in West Germany, there was a very strong emphasis on producing documentaries to educate people about 20th century history, in particular the Nazis and the Second World War, of course, but also the First World War and other assorted topics. As a result, the population in West Germany is now reasonably well-educated about all of this. The same thing wasn't done in East Germany under their régime, so that there are still perceptible differences, although since reunification more will have been done. Good historical programming is immensely important and valuable. I fully expect that there will also be historically inaccurate or deliberately misleading programmes, and I could well imagine a TV channel showing only ones like that, but I hope not.

we all know what they did

Just spotted you saying this. I'm not so sure this is the case.

I mean, when I played a recent PS4 game set in WW2 it spent the first ten minutes explaining to me how there was this big war between Germany and the Allies in the 1940s where a bunch of people died. I'm really not sure that many kids know anything about WW1 or WW2.

what about those tv channels that endlessly repeat documentaries about hitler and that whole era

are they history / education programmes, programmes glorifying that regime for those right wing cunts to fap over or just channels under the murdoch broadcasting organisation so standard fayre for them lining up with the bosses politics allegedly .

I occasionally dip into the "Yesterday" channel on Freeview, which certainly falls into that category. 2 things on this...

1. Some of the things they endlessly repeat (e.g. The World At War) have real value. The World At War actually provides a realistic counter to the jingoistic portrayal of WWII that you see in the right wing press. For example, regular contributions from members of the British public for whom the war was a recent memory and who made it very clear that they were very suspicious of Churchill as a politician.
   
2. Whatever value the few decent (and old) bits of content have, most of the newer stuff is sensationalist or highly slanted bilge. Yesterday channel has a whole stable of programmes all of which use the same talking heads with dubious qualifications, really just reading from scripts.
   
   

On the other hand, PBS and the Smithsonian Channel have consistently high quality output, some of it from UK broadcasters, about a much wider range of subjects (not just wars and not just WWII). Which means that when the WWII content does show up, it's in a much better context and isn't just there to a) lend credibility to the dross around it b) stoke the war fantasies of most of the regular viewers.