Note that the rest of this post includes spoilers. She argued that this drama was a way of asking ‘where would you have stood, who do you identify with and what would you have done.’ She added that there will not be living German witnesses who can talk about it for much longer. McElroy argued that the unprecedented scale of the Holocaust means that other crimes of Nazi Germany have been overlooked until recently. A dramatist should tell ‘the complete picture of something that’s deeply personal… obligation… is to send characters there and then ask what it does to them.’
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Horowitz said that he had ‘no responsibility necessarily to inform, to educate people…but to entertain.’ However, if he were ‘to twist history, to tell lies’ he would be ‘letting down the viewer.’ Phelps asked ‘whose historical accuracy are we recording?’ Different accounts ‘put a different spin on it.’ She thought that a drama could not give the complete picture of what happened to everybody. Other contributions to the programme came from Witold Sobków, the Polish Ambassador to the UK, the scriptwriters of two recent British war dramas, Anthony Horowitz ( Foyle’s War) and Sarah Phelps ( The Crimson Field) and Anne McElroy, a writer and broadcaster who has written extensively on German history.
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Sir Richard Evans, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University and author of a three-volume history of the Third Reich and Dr Eva Hoffman of Kingston University, London, whose Jewish parents survived the Holocaust in hiding in the part of Ukraine that was then Polish. David Cesarani, Professor of History at Royal Holloway, London and author of several works on the Holocaust Prof.
#Wilhelm unsere mütter unsere väter series#
The members of the discussion panel were: Benjamin Benedict, producer of the series Prof. For viewers in the UK it is available on the I-Player until 17 May, and is described by the BBC’s website as below:įollowing the final episode of the award-winning German drama Generation War, Martha Kearney is joined by a panel including the programme makers, leading historians and cultural commentators, to examine the historical facts behind the series, the controversy it has caused and why now Germany is confronting the difficult issues of its past. The BBC showed a discussion programme titled Generation War: Fact and Fiction immediately after the final episode. As described in this blog post, it tells the story of five German friends from 1941-45: two brothers, Wilhelm and Friedhelm, who are soldiers, Charlotte, a nurse, Greta, a singer and Viktor, a Jew. Its German title is Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter, which translates as Our Fathers, our Mothers.
#Wilhelm unsere mütter unsere väter tv#
They and millions of others wanted to be heroes but none of them could imagine what the war would ultimately do to them and to the rest of the world.Generation War, the German WWII TV drama series, has now finished on the BBC. Greta obtains papers for Viktor's escape by selling herself to an SS colonel.
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Charlotte's Nazi ideology crumbles when she betrays a Jewish nurse helping the German army. Wilhelm deserts his troops and is court-martialed. Friedhelm turns into a soulless killing machine. Valor and courage come to the fore, but also betrayal - of values, beliefs, humanity. While Greta is a talented singer who longs to become another Marlene Dietrich, her Jewish boyfriend Viktor still cannot convince his parents to leave Germany. Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte, a young nurse who looks forward to serving in the Wehrmacht, also on the eastern front. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm is off to the eastern front with his younger brother Friedhelm, a sensitive dreamer more interested in literature than warfare. Five friends eager to become heroes in an adventure that will change the face of Europe - and that will forever change them as well.