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I agree with that, too - unless it is a genuine and unbiased comparison or critique intelligently done - which it seldom is.

Thanks for your reply. Rabe himself was a long-term expatriate (30 years spent in Africa and China) with little knowledge of what was really going on in Nazi Germany. Quite possibly, had he known about the atrocities perpetrated in his own country he would not have written that letter to Hitler - let alone expected any intervention.

I just saw the 'us viewers'. I think it is because I see a lot of posts where the poster treats everybody else as one entity (usually negatively) or divides viewers into overgeneralised 'us and them' camps.

At least once in episode 6. I would have to rewatch the earlier eps to see if there were more.

I agree with you - therefore your 'ya all' doesn't quite fit, does it? Also, were I to hate a drama, it being successful or not would not even be a consideration. I may dislike many dramas, but I have never been a hater of them.

ra111ster: This was probably Kurt Georg Kiesinger (Chancellor of W. Germany 1966-1969 . The late 1960s saw the rise of the student movement and the “Auschwitz trials", which pushed German society to re-examine its wartime past.

Don't worry. We all do it.

What 'Chinese culture' is that? This drama is only representative of Ming Dynasty culture. Are you saying that you have only seen Ming Dynasty dramas? One can prefer one dynasty over another (for whatever reason) or even compare them, but one dynasty can not be a better representation of Chinese culture than another.

God! Whoever put him (ML) in that pale blue frumpy outfit... Glad that they allowed him to change to a more suitable colour / better fit soon afterwards.

No. Unless it refers to the short clip of the FL's maid complaining about the ML's investigation ruining the FL's investigation into the missing women.

voldermortsunbae: Were you, perhaps, thinking of 'half-sister' when you said she's not a cousin? That is, a concubine from the first family?

If the ML knew who he was and was bowing and scraping to her (as a ploy) I wouldn't mind nearly as much! We see that he has had one memory but...

Do we even know if they were his own words or whether he was reading from a script? And do we know if he was aware (at the time of saying) of the import of his words in relation to his country's infamous past? For instance, back in the 1980's, I met an 18 year old (British) who had never even heard of Hitler! And to this day, I can not get over the fact that she was so ignorant.

Although I understand your thoughts and feelings, one thing about your post bothers me, and that is, that there is, as far as I am aware, no documented evidence to suggest that the Nazis were ever shocked by the Japanese people's 'capacity for raw, inhuman, brutality'. Although your post is thoughtful, this particular statement (which may or may not be your own creation) seems more rhetorical than factual, which may distract from your more grounded insights.

Nazi Germany is widely seen as the benchmark for 20th‑century brutality so the idea that “even the Nazis were shocked” functions as a rhetorical device to emphasize the scale of Japanese war crimes. But rhetorically powerful does not mean historically documented - whatever is circulated online.

Thanks again, for the information.

Thank you.

Thanks very much. I'll have a look. I think I saw the same dog as a puppy in A Dream of Splendour.

Yes!

Thanks. Actually, I have just rewatched 'A dream of Splendour', and I can't say that the same 'dog' stars in that drama too, because it is a puppy, but definitely the same breed if it isn't.

Thank you. I couldn't remember which ones.