If you could be a fly on a wall for 1 WW2 event ...

[eldenwaff]

beer hall putsch ? Last hour in the bunker ? In the tunnels of Corregidor with MacArthur ? D-Day planning ? Last day at Stalingrad with Von Paulus ? Kamikaze pep talk before takeoff ? On the bridge of Hornet while the Doolittle Raiders took off ? Enola Gay ?

I've always been fascinated with the Bataan/Corregidor campaign, forlorn though it was, so I'd pick the moment Mac got the order to leave and place Wainwright in command to witness.
Beer hall putsch would be a close second, not sure I'd have cared to witness any final bunker activities.

[Tom B]

The last week in Hitler's Berlin Bunker in April 1945.

[Totenhead]

There are many for me but being as we are only a few weeks from July 1st 2016...

The British Front Line trenches at 07:30 am July 1st 1916,
the whistles blow all along the line,
The Battle of the Somme begins and the bloodiest day in British military history to date..

EDIT: just read the title properly but nevermind...

[Seigfried]

In one of the leading Panzers on 22nd June 1941...

[mailman]

So many, it's hard to say.
But with only one choice, I would say Pearl Harbor.

[Sal Williams]

How about fly on the wall when reichstag fire was lit, or fly on the wall the day before Hess took his flight, or how about fly on the wall when the amber room was carted off, or fly on the wall the last know day and location of the Blutfanne. One could solve some mysteries

[Totenhead]

Would have been an eye opener for a fly on the wall at the Wannsee conference.....

[eldenwaff]

Would have been an eye opener for a fly on the wall at the Wannsee conference.....

Assuming a German speaking fly !

[Totenhead]

Assuming a German speaking fly !

Of course, the fly could then have relayed the information back to the Volk who knew nothing of such things until April 1945

[eldenwaff]

Of course, the fly could then have relayed the information back to the Volk who knew nothing of such things until April 1945

Is probably true that the average Volk knew nothing at all what went on behind wires and walls any more than we do today - Whether or not they would have really cared is another question, probably unanswerable.

But yeah, seeing old Heydrich in action before he was shredded up would have been interesting, I heard he had a high pitched, squawky voice.

[Seigfried]

high pitched, squawky voice.

His 'squeaky' voice did not prevent him from dismounting the vehicle and chasing the assassins down the street firing his pistol after them.

[Seigfried]

Is probably true that the average Volk knew nothing at all what went on behind wires and walls any more than we do today - Whether or not they would have really cared is another question

I expect that they did not notice the permanently smoking chimney stacks!

I would guess that they knew pretty much what was going on but were in no position to do anything, otherwise they would have been 'up the chimney' as well. Keeping quiet was probably the best way to ensure survival, well at least until the Soviets turned up.

[Edward]

Not to get off track but, people knew as far back as 1934 what was happening when individuals at all levels of society and members of opposition parties were rounded up and started vanishing into Straffenlagers never to return, or came back as broken individuals that something seriously wrong was afoot. Documented fact that the treatment given out to the prisoners at these early camps were as bad as the later Kz's.

[eldenwaff]

His 'squeaky' voice did not prevent him from dismounting the vehicle and chasing the assassins down the street firing his pistol after them.

Not implying the man was a coward by any means, it would seem quite the opposite was true.

I expect that they did not notice the permanently smoking chimney stacks!

I would guess that they knew pretty much what was going on but were in no position to do anything, otherwise they would have been 'up the chimney' as well. Keeping quiet was probably the best way to ensure survival, well at least until the Soviets turned up.

Not many Volk by the "extermination camps", I seriously doubt if Dachau ect chimneys were "permanently smoking", they had no chambers, not sure about crematoriums.
Most of the mass corpses being bulldozed into trenches pics we see were in fact taken weeks and months after the Allies took over the camps in Germany, many 10,000's of liberated prisoners perished after the surrender.

Not minimizing well documented Nazi brutality, facts are facts.

[Seigfried]

Not many Volk by the "extermination camps", I seriously doubt if Dachau ect chimneys were "permanently smoking", they had no chambers, not sure about crematoriums.
Most of the mass corpses being bulldozed into trenches pics we see were in fact taken weeks and months after the Allies took over the camps in Germany, many 10,000's of liberated prisoners perished after the surrender.

Yes, fair point.