The real war criminals are the others who exult in killing or intellectualize it. The atrocities two of them commit as soldiers - one executes a Soviet commissar, the other a Jewish girl - seem to come from their circumstances: Obey or die. They are swept along like corks in an ocean. Writer Dieter Wellershoff, interviewed on a popular talk show, said that at 18 he volunteered for the Hermann Goring tank regiment in 1943, after the German defeats in Stalingrad and north Africa, knowing that he was joining a losing war.Īll five characters in Hofmann's film reach that conclusion early on. If they fought on, it was out of desperation or camaraderie. What comes across strongly from these accounts is that, after 1943, most intelligent Germans accepted that the war was lost.
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Now, 90-year-olds talk of "seeing villages burned" or of how they escaped firing-squad duty. It seems that the actual atrocities were committed by others, not those who are prepared to speak today.
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Unsere Mutter, Unsere Vater has reminded the public that this is their last chance to talk to survivors.
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I agree to the Terms and Conditions, Cookie and Privacy Policies, and CASL agreement.įilms such as Schindler's List (1993), the American television series Holocaust (1978) and the German-made Downfall (2004), which tracks Hitler's final days, all caused passing sensations in Germany, but did not prompt the same intergenerational questioning.