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"We didn't give up in the last war," says one satisfyingly porcine Nazi officer trying to rally the troops against the advancing Red Army.
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Proper Nazis in Generation War are ugly, stupid and evil. While Michael Verhoeven's 1990 film Das Schreckliche Mädchen (The Nasty Girl), was about a troublesome teen excavating the Nazi past older people in her village had tried to bury, Generation War is the reverse, suggesting most Germans, symbolised by this quintet, were basically good guys misled by the real Nazis, who are a kind of symbolic Other on to which war guilt can be projected. In fact, it's much more dubious, though intriguingly so. When it was screened in Germany last year, this three-part German production was called Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Our Mothers, Our Fathers), suggesting an unflinching journey into the heart of parental darkness. After Soviet troops shoot the patients and rape the nurses at a field hospital, their commanding officer arrives and reproves her men: "We're liberators, not rapists." Whatever you need to tell yourself. Not that the Nazis here have a monopoly on self-delusion. "To begin with, we were heroes," one Wehrmacht grunt reflects as the Red Army cross the Vistula, "and now we're just assholes." No, you were always assholes. Were all the good Germans handsome and the evil Nazis brushed with the ugly stick, I also wondered? That question is probably beyond the professor's competence. Would Wehrmacht troops be chums with the son of a Jewish tailor in 1941 Berlin, I wondered? And would he have had an affair with a woman who was prostituting herself to an oily SS Sturmbahnführer? Perhaps so: the historical bona fides of this drama are vouched for by Professor Thomas Weber, chair in history and international affairs at the University of Aberdeen and visiting scholar at Harvard. And Greta's boyfriend, Viktor? He's Jewish and so poised to spend his war eluding the death camps. Over three, crazily telescoped 90-minute episodes, we follow their untergang – the downfall of Nazi Germany, the shattering of their illusions.īrothers Wilhelm (a career soldier) and Friedhelm (a pacifist) have been ordered to the eastern front, nurse Charlotte will follow them, while chanteuse Greta is poised to become a Nazi pin-up girl. Five improbably sympathetic Germans are saying their goodbyes and agree to meet again after the war, which they think might be as soon as Christmas.
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Incorrect claims about history should be met with facts, not images made only to shock and provoke.Īlso, ZDF is an independent non-profit TV-station founded by the German federal states (not the central government) so why use Merkel if not to score a political point? It would be like blaming the Swedish government for some bad TV-series shown on the SVT-station, it is makes little sense.I t's the eve of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, the Nazis' calamitous invasion of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941. I have no problem with being critical of bad historical material shown around the world, there is definitely no shortage of it, I do however have problems with the political use of such images as it weakens the power of them and is offensive to the suffers. I say this as a member of nation that was to exterminated by Germans, and I know that many others feel the same.
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In my opinion that image is offensive to all those who died in the camps, regardless of nationality, they deserve better than to be used to score some petty political points.Īttempts to resist white washing the history of the greatest organized genocide known in the history of man are not petty political points in my opinion.
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Lokanski wrote:It is a fitting metaphor on how the series tries to distort the history.