- UNSERE MÜTTER UNSERE VÄTER GENERATION WAR MOVIE SERIES
- UNSERE MÜTTER UNSERE VÄTER GENERATION WAR MOVIE TV
UNSERE MÜTTER UNSERE VÄTER GENERATION WAR MOVIE TV
The same blind spots exist in recent TV shows about the two World Wars produced in the former Allied countries. Generation War does not even hint at the fact that roughly every twentieth soldier in the Wehrmacht was a female auxiliary and that many of them served in the East.
UNSERE MÜTTER UNSERE VÄTER GENERATION WAR MOVIE SERIES
The series ignored the fact that women in the Third Reich supported World War II quite actively-and far beyond war-time nursing work-through extensive deployment in the wartime economy, where they increasingly replaced conscripted men as the conflict progressed, as well as through their integration into civil aerial-defense and the military. Counter-images were a female Red Army officer and a Polish girl who joins the partisan movement. German women in Generation War are presented only as caring nurses, worried soldiers’ mothers, Nazi mistresses, or victims of Nazi persecution. But there was one aspect that went unnoticed: the series reiterated old stereotypes about the World War II gender order. In the subsequent contentious media discussion, film critics, journalists, and historians criticized many aspects of the series as not radical enough or too stereotypical. It asked who knew what, who was involved, and in which ways. It questioned the myth of the unsullied Wehrmacht soldiers and demanded that viewers reflect upon their own family history. Titled in English Generation War, the series portrays World War II in Germany and Eastern Europe and examines the atrocities committed by the German Wehrmacht and its role in the Holocaust.įor German television viewers, the Emmy-winning series seems to have been quite stirring indeed. More than seven million Germans, 20 percent of the total TV audience, watched the primetime series, on the channel ZDF. Only hypocrites believe that it’s nothing to do with them, and that they and their kin have only ever done good.“War Drama Stirs up Germany,” read the title page of the tabloid BILD following the TV broadcast of the three-part series Unsere Mütter-Unsere Väter, in March 2013. But it doesn’t do much good, and sometimes it does harm. No human has the right to feel perfect detachment from human evil, past or present. Words advertising personal rectitude become all-important, largely because they confer the ability to call out lack of personal rectitude in others. "So much of politics in this country today can seem to be about saying the right words instead of doing the right thing. I like what Deborah Orr has to say today in "The Guardian" about Ben Affleck's attempt to shrug off his own family involvement in slavery. The cartoonish approach elides the human stories that are more complex than stick-figure stories, in the midst of historical situations that did not appear to those living through them as black and white, as simple, as they do in retrospect. You make me ager to watch the series.Ī parallel case: the cartoonish way in which we're supposed to think about the history of slavery, when we're even willing to engage it at all.
The extent to which the Wehrmacht, the regular German army (and not just the SS or the Gestapo), committed acts inĪlan, thank you for this great review. War goes further than many treatments of the war have gone in portraying One pacifist in the bunch becomes a hardened killer, even of innocentĬritics suggest, and this is most assuredly not a whitewash. The last two of the fivesome are a couple in love with each other, GretaĮnds up is sleeping with a Gestapo officer to get papers to get Victor out of At one point, she learns a Ukrainian nurse “Charly” as she is called, volunteersĮnthusiastically “to represent the German woman” as a nurse at the front. There is Charlotte, who is in love with Wilhelm but afraid to let him know it. Wilhelm is a dutiful son and takes his responsibilities to the Of them, Friedhelm, is mistreated by his father because he is a “soft” mother’sĪnd the narrator of the tale, is made to promise by his mother that he willīring his little brother home alive and by his father that he will bring honor
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