


This may seem like a minor issue, but most Jews clinging to their identity and/or their Up their own Aryan version of "next year in Jerusalem" by saying they'll see each other "next Christmas", a promise that It gets even worse a few moments later when the five call Them were part of Hitler's army and one of them-well, wasn't. This quintet includes Nazi soldiers as well as a Jew, and it struck me as instantly unbelievable that at so late a date asġ941, even those who may have had established relationships as kids would continue to meet as adults, when some of Its own actions during the Hitler era, a gaggle of childhood friends reunite as young adults in the winter of 1941 in Berlin. Early on in this supposedly "revisionist" take on how Germany sees Relieves me of a duty for which I may have prejudices. In a way, it's a good thing that several German historians have already taken Generation War to task, for it


Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, May 6, 2014 Sometimes history is rewritten by the losers. Producers: Benjamin Benedict, Nico Hofmann, Jürgen Schuster Starring: Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein, Ludwig Trepte, Mark Waschke GENERATION WAR examines the atrocities of the Third Reich on both grand and personal levels, depicting the nationalist fervor, human betrayals and eventual crumbling ideology of the German people through the story of five diverging lives.įor more about Generation War and the Generation War Blu-ray release, see Generation War Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on where this Blu-ray release scored 3.5 out of 5. Only resourceful tailor Viktor, a Jew, begins to sense the impending horrors. Hitler is about to invade the Soviet Union, and five young Germans eagerly await a glorious future: patriotic Wehrmacht lieutenant Wilhelm heads to the Eastern Front with his bookish younger brother Friedhelm in pursuit of the "final victory " bright-eyed Charlotte volunteers as a field nurse to serve the brave German men and chanteuse Greta aspires to be the next Marlene Dietrich. Generation War Blu-ray delivers stunning video and audio in this fan-pleasing Blu-ray releaseīerlin, 1941.
