Not accurate indeed.
I am interested how it all looks, but I am not that enthusiastic when I read this:
The Battle of Britain
Allegations of anti-Polish bias
The episode has been criticized for
anti-Polish bias.
[1]:151-2 The bias is a result of propaganda justifying the Western Allies' alliance with the Soviets, as the Soviets had to be portrayed as the "good guys." The Allies who were unsympathetic towards the Soviet Union, such as the Poles, were misportrayed or simply ignored.
[1]:148-52 Thus, in this episode the map of Europe displayed shows half of Poland free (to avoid mentioning
Soviet annexation of Polish territories following
Soviet invasion of Poland), repeats the false
Nazi propaganda claims that the
Polish Air Force was destroyed on the ground (contrasting it with the correct fact that the
RAF was not destroyed), and ignores the significant Polish participation in the
Battle of Britain. Participation from Polish pilots from
No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron and other units was widely publicized in Britain at the time this propaganda piece was filmed.
[1]:151-2
+ this:
The Nazis Strike
Critical reception
Polish-American historian
Mieczysław B. Biskupski gives a harsh review of the movie, calling it "a conglomeration of patriotic exhortation, crackpot geopolitical theorizing, and historical mischief making."
[1] He notes that the film was more than inaccurate, that it was an intentional attempt to falsify certain facts about the war, in particular, through its misportrayal of the Soviets.
[1] The film casts Poles into the role of failure, and Soviets into the role of guiltless saviors, thus serving a clear ideological role of justifying the Anglo-American alliance with the Soviet Union.
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