Herbert Sobel, the sadistic boot camp captain portrayed by Friends star David Schwimmer, couldn’t cope with his survivor’s guilt after being sidelined to a noncombat position. It boosted the careers of actors like Homeland star Damian Lewis, made household names of Dick Winters and Lewis Nixon, and brought to vivid life the experiences of World War II combat, liberating a concentration camp and parachuting behind enemy lines on D-Day. The 10-part series, which was based on Stephen Ambrose’s biography of a company in the elite 101st Airborne Division, remains one of the most watched TV series of all time. Learning about events from TV and film may do a disservice to history, but there’s no denying that seeing dramatic events brought to life can be both instructive and entertaining - and perhaps never more so than with HBO’s epic Band of Brothers.That’s why today, 70 years after D-Day, many Americans will recall the Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944, and conjure the faces of actors rather than the actual soldiers who stormed the beach. From the gory inaccuracies of Saving Private Ryan to kill-your-own-Nazi games like Call of Duty, it’s deceptively easy to get sidetracked by what the present has made of the past.
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Fact and fiction frequently collide when it comes to World War II.
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