Friedhelm knows the futility of the war from the start and hangs on to his humanity until the war mercilessly grinds it out of him. The series follows the five friends from the summer of 1941 through the end of the war and shows how their lives intersect and dramatically change as the war drags on.īoth brothers serve on the Eastern Front, beginning with Russia. Generation War (Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter) centers on five friends from Berlin who've been together since childhood: Wilhelm and his younger brother, Friedhelm, are in the Wehrmacht Charlotte (Charly) just joined the German Red Cross as a nurse Greta is a bartender with singing aspirations and Viktor is a Jewish tailor. It just recently appeared on Netflix streaming, and I binge-watched all three episodes. I knew it had generated some controversy, but I also knew I had to judge for myself. When this German miniseries on World War II came out in Germany in 2013, I was quite anxious to watch it.
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