Generation War: Outstanding German mini series.

[Vishnu]

See it.  Many critics call it the "German Band of Brothers".  You won't regret it.

 

Made my wife and daughter watch it,  they loved it.  

 

It's available on Tubi for free!

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1883092/

 

 

 

Edited March 30, 2022 by Vishnu

[Robli]

I saw it a few years back under the name of "Our Mothers, Our Fathers".

Too bad they ruined the otherwise good mini-series by the absurd presentation of Polish resistance fighters.

[Aurora_Stealth]

Yeah, well you can always pick holes in these types of series/programmes... but it was definitely one of the better WW2 series I have seen in recent years.

 

Saw it a couple of years ago, think it was on netflix... I was very impressed - its very gritty and the storyline was pretty good.

 

Some of the combat scenes were very intense and while you can always argue about how 'true' every detail and scene is; I thought it was overall a fairly honest depiction of the sort of things that were going on. There will always be inaccuracies and a little storytelling to make it watchable to an audience.

Edited March 30, 2022 by Aurora_Stealth

[Bremspropeller]

3 hours ago, Robli said:

Too bad they ruined the otherwise good mini-series by the absurd presentation of Polish resistance fighters.

 

Things tend to be diffucult, when you have to space several years into a couple of hours. The resistance-fighters in the series are not supposed to show the Poles as bad people, but they generally show the hardship that some jews faced, showing the the world isn't black/white and good/ bad as the movies are usually trying to show.

Building characters tends to combine serval real world biographies into one single person to bring across a story that while not being accurate in itself, is representative of the lives of several different people. You just don't have the time to fit 52 different storylines into one miniseries.

 

At the bottom line, if some people instead of always pointing the finger at others, could acknowledge that they themselves have no perfect historical record either (duh, nobody does), the world could move on and progress forward a whole lot quicker.

 

[Cybermat47]

The series does have problems, but I do appreciate that it shows one German Army soldier...

 

Spoiler

... go from being an average, likable person to a hardened war criminal, while still retaining enough humanity to not be a caricature. One of the most enduring falsehoods around WWII is the 'clean Wehrmacht myth', so it's good to see that being challenged by this show (that isn't to say that every German soldier was a war criminal or a Nazi - Wilm Hosenfeld, Albert Battel, Hans Scholl, and Saint Alexander Schmorell are examples to the contrary - but the idea that there wasn't a significant amount of Nazis and war criminals in the Wehrmacht is demonstrably false).

 

Personally, I hope we see more shows like it. I'd recommend Der Untergang and Stalingrad (1993) to anyone who likes Generation War, as well as to anyone who doesn't like it. They're both essentially the best parts of Generation War without the worst parts.

Edited March 30, 2022 by Cybermat47

[Robli]

Yes, overall it was a very good series (besides the mentioned Polish aspect), showing how the war impacted and changed ordinary happy young people. 

[Rafcio]

I've seen this movie. Of course, a great lie to show (because it's best to do it with a film) how the Germans weren't actually bad people during the Second World War. War is a matter of some Nazis, and the Germans just happened to be there by accident and, in fact, they are victims of this war like these young people. The Germans did not want this war. Some Nazis wanted her. All in all, we should sympathize with the Germans. They have suffered so much.

Complete nonsense. The reality was as shown in the photos.

Hitler was supported by the majority of Germans, and nothing in the world, not even a thousand such films, will ever wash away the shame of starting a war and murdering millions of people.

And it's best to show how others were more evil than us, that is, Germans during the war. It is about how the Polish Home Army was shown in this film, the largest underground army in Europe at that time, part of which was ŻEGOTA, the only state-supported institution in occupied Europe established to save Jews.