‘Winter Soldier’ (1972) - They Risked Everything to Tell The Truth.

For three days in 1971, former US soldiers who were in Vietnam testify in Detroit about their war experiences. Nearly 30 speak, describing atrocities personally committed or witnessed, telling of inaccurate body counts, and recounting the process of destroying a village. The atrocities are casual, seem routine, and are sanctioned or committed by officers. Images from the war illustrate the testimony; there's a side discussion among veterans about racism and a couple of interviews about the soldiers' self-realization. The testimony appears in the US Congressional Record on April 6 and 7, 1971. A "winter soldier" contrasts with Paine's "summer soldier and sunshine patriot."


Tyler Bass
Forbidden Knowledge TV
May 2, 2015

As the war in Vietnam raged on in the early 1970s, the mainstream media refused to air this documentary showing testimony, and even confessions, of U.S. war crimes; today critics consider it one of the greatest ever documentaries. The Baby Boom generation that fought the war thought it could rely on the ideals of the Geneva Conventions. These service members, some of them guilt-ridden, believed the Nuremberg trials for Nazis had established anyone’s culpability for “just followers orders.” “Winter Soldier” shows brutal realities for which the public was not yet ready.

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