To me personally, as a former History and Art teacher, who also studied animation, it’s not about why really, it’s about could it be done? Things like this will always fall under “artistic impression”, as no matter the technology, we ourselves are only limited to the present, so we could never recreate something from the past 100% accurately. Unless we somehow figure out how to view the past in real time (which by the way is theoretically possible, maybe in the future). So best we can do is recreate parts of history to give us an idea of how it would have been. In the end it’s really just playing around for our own curiosity/ satisfaction/ etc.

We are definitely living in an age that’s like no other in history. Where kings and dictators had it “easy” to manipulate their own people in the past, today it’s getting harder to do with, for now, uncontrolled communication, or should I say, free communication and access to information. But another danger arise with this, and it’s something Hitler’s arms minister, Albert Speer, warned about, he said that never before has anyone used technology so well for propaganda, like the radio and camera. He said something along the lines of how great technology is, but we should safeguard it and not allow dictators to use it for their own benefits. Internet is an amazing tool, but it too can sway opinions if it ever gets controlled, or simply just via advertising or miss information.

Yes, people today seem to forget just how crazy history has already been. People saying things like “we living in the last days before the end of the world because of all the wars etc going on today”. Well, if you want to get all biblical about it then surely the second world war was the end of the world, it even had a leader, who at first seemed unstoppable, trying to wipe out all jews and install a new world order. We are actually living in a fairly peaceful time in world history today, all things considered I guess. So I’d believe what your father say, we cannot really imagine what it’s like when a war happens and it comes down to survival, for yourself, family and/ or your identity/ nation.

Well, the autobahn’s main goal was to transport military, all the job creation and sudden rise of economy was geared to collapse in the long term, as it too was focused on a future war, so a war had to happen, and as the war went on, more war was needed to sustain the economy, for example the push into Southern Russia for the oil fields. The way the Third Reich managed the economy would have imploded on its own without a war.

I’m not disagreeing with you though, the autobahn was the first highway, V2 the first ballistic missiles that lead to space travel, first photo of earth was even taken using a modified V2. First jet aircraft, first assault rifle, the volkswagen even, and so on. Just saying that, let’s say, unfortunately, most of these innovations has their routs in war. That doesn’t take away how innovative they were though.