# Historical events Pop culture has done to death **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-pop-culture-has-done-to-death/575876 "2011-03-24T18:43:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-pop-culture-has-done-to-death/575876/61 "2011-03-27T19:54:47Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > MASH _was_ set during the Korean war. Yeah, dude, everyone knows that. It was a joke. The show was set during the Korean War but was really about Vietnam. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-pop-culture-has-done-to-death/575876/62 "2011-03-28T17:10:55Z")
> [@Crusoe](#): > > I’m not sure there’d be the ratings outside of the countries involved to support a series about German soldiers. Don’t think “PC” has anything to do with it at all. The books sold well, also Cross of Iron I believe did quite well in the cinemas, don’t know how well Stalingrad did ( excellent movie by the way) but as it was made in german that went against viewing figures I suspect. I don’t think that the readers of the books were closet nazis or anything, I think it was partly the novelty of the genre plus curiousity about how the other side felt, acted and thought. Over the years we’ve been inundated with books/movies about Brits and Americans in WW2 and it can get quite stale. ---
**Author:** ![45backer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/9fc29f/32.png) [@45backer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/45backer)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-pop-culture-has-done-to-death/575876/63 "2011-03-29T06:14:30Z")
How many more things can be done on the Kennedy’s? I’m sure…hundreds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-pop-culture-has-done-to-death/575876.md?page=3)