In “Blitz,” Steve McQueen’s powerful reconstruction of Germany’s World War II blitzkrieg attack on Britain, the most harrowing scene takes place underground. As London is attacked by Nazi planes, a ...
Looting was the largely unspoken, unacknowledged underside of the ‘Blitz spirit’. Some looters were bomb chasers. During a raid they would converge on the target area and smash shop windows as ...
“Blitz” is a predominantly fictional story ... “That’s all true,” McQueen says. “There was a bomb that exploded above (ground) and hit a bus, which went into a crevasse and broke ...