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But for a country that needs to closely examine it's history as a warning against repeating the same mistakes of the past, you simply can't depict the Nazi era in the typical Hollywood fashion. Like most German films that deal with the WWII, the primary intent for the domestic audience is to warn and guard against support for fascism or similar totalitarian ideologies. No, I'm pretty certain they misinterpretted it as an attempt to excuse away German crimes during WWII, or as request for forgiveness on behalf the German war generation (see the New York Times review). A moral air-brushing, or an empathetic (but not sympathetic) attempt to partially explain one of the darkest periods of the 20th century? I'm really interested if the overall message has been lost in translation. So, if you see this in the US, let me know what you think. And most of the main characters are hardly "chaste", and no more self-sacrificing than the average soldier in war. No, you don't actually see death camps in the series, but their existence underscore most of the subplot involving the Jewish character.
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This omission has the effect of at least partly restoring the innocence of the characters and of perpetuating the notion that ordinary Germans were duped by the Nazis and ignorant of the extent of their crimes." Scott concluded: "The chaste, self-sacrificing Aryans, the lieutenant and the nurse, are the heroes of the story, just as they would have been in a German film made in 1943." This sounds almost like a completely different movie from the series I saw. Generation War, for all its geographic range and military detail, steers clear of the death camps. I saw it as nothing more than the exact opposite- an attempt to explain WHY average Germans were willing participants in the horror, and by extension, to serve as a warning to today's youth.įrom another review: " the suggestion that the Nazis were not the only bad guys in Eastern Europe in the early 1940s is undermined by the film's disinclination to show the very worst of what the Nazis did.
Most of the reviews seem to write this off as a German attempt to white-wash the average German's role in the horrors of WWII. Looks like it's hit theaters in the US, but reading a few English-language reviews, I'm wondering if the edited cut available there has undermined the overall theme.
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In Das Boot what I found sympathetic and humane in the U-Boat commander was that he spares the crew member who momentarily cracked from a court martial (Kriegsgericht). That scene reminds me of the excellent Austrailian movie, Breaker Morant. He is put in a moral quandry when he decides after hesitation to shoot the partisan. The tid bit I saw in Unsere Väter, Unsere Mütter also on the Internet shows that complicity of the Wehrmacht, as portrayed by the main character officer, decribed as "nur Vorzeigesoldat." He protests (what I saw) to his interlocuter, a pro-Nazi officer that this isn't war (Das ist doch kein Krieg!), ie., what we're doing is committing murder. This exhibit was called Die Wehrmacht Ausstellung. In the summer of 1989 there was a provocative, controversial exhibit going around West Germany.I missed it.showing just that: the complicity of the Army in the East in committing atrocites, not just excesses, particularily in Serbia, Greece, etc. Not only did we allow it, we actively participated." Or at least, that's my Richard.Your points are well taken. Meaning, "It wasn't some demons from hell that drove us over the edge. I think the producers' aim was to eliminate the "bad Nazi"/"normal German" dichotomy. Only the Jewish character bravely rises above the occassion. Presented with morally difficult dilemmas, the otherwise sympathetic protagonists of the film do some awful things.
"Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter" went one step further. There's somewhat of a dichotomy between irredeemable villains, like the hard core Nazis and SS, and the "normal Germans" caught up in the events. Think Sophie Scholl, the U-boat commander in "Das Boot", or Hitler's secretary in "Downfall".
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However, usually the movie or TV depicts the events from the point of view of a somewhat morally innocent (or at least less morally guilty) protagonist. It was far from the first German-produced WWII drama to deal with some of the issues of German war guilt- most do quite openly. I can venture an assumption on why the program provoked such a remarkable national conversation. Conversation didn't go into a great depth, other than to note that we both enjoyed it. I only talked about the program with one of my neighbors, who I knew was interested in military history. You would be in a better position than me to learn information as it becomes available. I wouldn't know anything further about the North American release plans.
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