World on Fire (BBC1)

Yes, that's the one! Admittedly it did set the bar high.

You should see her in 'Harlots' (Amazon Prime + StarzPlay). Her character in World on Fire is positively angelic by comparison! On second thoughts, it's perhaps best you don't see her in Harlots - you might never recover.

I could just about understand the change if this were an American show but it is pretty poor to change poor Clare in a British production. I've rather taken against it now.

I'm wondering if they wanted the scene where she saw the tanks on the border, but have some completely made up story coming in the next few episodes so couldn't have her as a real person?

No need to be sorry, you're absolutely right, it really annoys me too.

Yes, I agree about the sub-titles. I would guess getting on for a third of the programme was in Polish, maybe even more. The sub-titles were a distraction from the on-screen action.

I am sure there is much more to be told. They recently published the diary of a Polish girl that they say could be as good as Anne Frank. 

There is still very little about collaboration. I mean we have never had a story about collaborators who genuinely believed they were doing the correct thing. The recent discovery of all the reports made by ordinary citizens on their neighbours coming and going in Germany is revelatory. Of course the information should have been destroyed but instead a police employee appears to have very tidily boxed it all up and put it in a basement of the library. It shows the scope and depth to which ordinary people in Germany were involved and knew what was happening and how far they were prepared to go for the cause, for money, for jealousy. When the author tried to interview some of the people who were making regular reports (those still alive that had been young people at the time) he was almost driven from the town. The story that most people in Germany had no idea what was going on was completely blown out of the water by the revelations that even in a small provincial town people were more than happy to report and snooped on each other continuously and knew the consequences of what might happen to people when the 'disappeared'. Some of these stories are heart-rending and need to be told. 

There is not much written or filmed about the lack of resistance response in Holland in the early years and how the Dutch helped round up and incarcerate more people than any other in Europe, how they were reluctant to take them back and had to be forced to by other nations and even then put them back into camps for processing. Some of this was covered in the film Black Book but only from a singular point of view not a national one. We have all heard that Vichy France helped round up Jews and others for the camps but when did you hear about the fact that the Dutch were simply superb, efficient and really keen to be a success at this. You had virtually no chance of survival in Holland but other countries took a much more casual approach and even a determination to not let it happen e.g. Denmark. 

There's not much about Spain or Switzerland sending people back over the border into the hands of the Germans. Yes, you can find it if you search but there is not much that has been made into a film.

Nothing much has ever been written about Italy and the civilian populations there. 

There's still lots to tell and lots that is still news. 

I think young people in many countries are wanting to look into what really happened, I believe that there is currently a greater  focus in Italy on research into the  1930s and 40s