Bob Wurth's books include 'Justice in the Philippines' and 'Saving Australia' and he was a contributor to Dorothy Horsfield’s 'Paul Lyneham, a Memoir'. http://www.sbs.com.au/rss/Blog/113312 Bob Wurth asks if wartime propagandists, such as controversial filmmaker Veit Harlan, are war criminals or simply just artists tending to their craft. http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/120546/t/Artful-dodgers-of-condemnation http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/120546/t/Artful-dodgers-of-condemnation Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1000 Despite the Japanese Navy's attempts to make us think otherwise, the youthful sacrifice of the Kamikaze pilots was not always voluntary, eager or willing, writes Bob Wurth. http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/120506/t/The-Kamikaze-myth http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/120506/t/The-Kamikaze-myth Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1000 http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/119872/t/The-Nazi-King-fool-or-traitor http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/119872/t/The-Nazi-King-fool-or-traitor Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000 What we call the Great Wall of China today is just one of China’s great walls and the Chinese are still discovering more and more sections of them, some in a state of great decay, as Bob Wurth reveals. http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/116777/t/China-s-Great-Wall http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/116777/t/China-s-Great-Wall Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +1100 Just when you thought you had enough to worry about - from Iran’s nuclear program to your finances after the global meltdown to the safety of insulation in the roof - Bob Wurth discovers there’s a renewed global mega-worry for us all: asteroid impacts and the Big Bang. http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/116537/t/Big-Bang-in-Tunguska http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/116537/t/Big-Bang-in-Tunguska Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +1100 Just when you thought you had enough to worry about - from Iran’s nuclear program to your finances after the global meltdown to the safety of insulation in the roof - Bob Wurth discovers there’s a renewed global mega-worry for us all: asteroid impacts and the Big Bang. http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/116542/t/Big-Bang-in-Tunguska http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/116542/t/Big-Bang-in-Tunguska Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +1100 http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/116306/t/Unsinkable-Titanic http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/116306/t/Unsinkable-Titanic Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +1100 Close to 98 years after the sinking of the then world’s largest vessel, the SBS documentary drama Unsinkable Titanic is a reminder of the potential vulnerability of ships at sea, says Bob Wurth. http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/116311/t/Unsinkable-Titanic http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/116311/t/Unsinkable-Titanic Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +1100 Bob Wurth re-traces the steps of Robert Menzies at Obersalzberg and wonders if other visitors felt "the awe and perhaps even pride in the power and skill of Germany’s Nazi regime, if not admiring their barbarous and treacherous methods." http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/115737/t/Hitler-s-Bodyguard http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/115737/t/Hitler-s-Bodyguard Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:00:00 +1100 As we mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Bob Wurth considers the case for the 'West Bank Security Fence'. http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/114116/t/Busting-the-Berlin-Wall http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/114116/t/Busting-the-Berlin-Wall Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +1100 The tragic consequences of war are certainly not something we should "get over," Bob Wurth writes. http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/119217/t/-quot-War-is-history.-Get-over-it-quot http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/blogs/view/id/119217/t/-quot-War-is-history.-Get-over-it-quot Thu, 01 Jan 1970 11:00:00 +1000