The Germans want so much to achieve a different, higher status-that of a people not accused of starting two World Wars and a bloodbath in which it drowned Europe.' With this interpretation Gawin does not represent the majority of Poles, but rather the conservative and patriotic circles that traditionally view Germany with mistrust. Gawin did not mince her words: 'Today's Germany is in fact pluralistic, peaceful, and is working through its own past with respect to anti-Semitism, militarism, nationalism, and other sins of the past-but preferably those of others. The Germans even tend to portray themselves in the role of victims, she said, and to put the blame on other peoples. She said the film was part of a broad-based policy regarding German history, which aims to exonerate the German nation from its historical responsibility for the Second World War. The Polish journalist Magda Gawin viewed the ZDF production as the expression of a 'new German identity'. 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.Simultaneously in late June 2013, two major conservative newspapers, the German Die Welt and Polish Rzeczpospolita, published attempts to summarize the most recent German-Polish neighborly dispute over the three-part feature miniseries Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Generation War) shown on ZDF German television ( Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) last spring. 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. Screenshots from another edition of Generation War Blu-rayīerlin, 1941.

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