When aired in Poland, the series scored record ratings, in spite of the Polish criticism. Charlotte's grief is further compounded when a wounded Friedhelm claims that Wilhelm was killed in action and she has an affair with the chief surgeon.
Wilhelm's death sentence is reduced to probation and he is assigned to a disciplinary battalion. The review ends with the comment that of the five protagonists, "the artist, the intellectual and the Jew are all punished, for wantonness, weakness and naïveté, and pushed into extreme states of moral compromise, the chaste, self-sacrificing Aryans, the lieutenant and the nurse, though they are not without guilt, are the heroes of the story, just as they would have been in a German film made in 1943. The page you are looking for does not exist. The Poles are shown as even more anti-Semitic than the Germans.
The day after, she is arrested by the Gestapo and thrown into prison for making remarks in public that disapprove of the war and the Hitler regime and also probably because of her attempts to contact the same Gestapo major in the first episode (calling him at home, which, as his mistress, was unacceptable). Charlotte gets used to seeing blood as she works near the front-line. It was filmed in sound stages and backlots at Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam and on location in Germany and Lithuania as well as in Latvia. Friedhelm is sent back home, but seeing his father's disappointment with Wilhelm's apparent death, and lack of appreciation for Friedhelm's survival, Friedhelm cuts short his leave and returns to his unit. The film conveys that, and yet does not gloss-over the forced use of the Heer by the RSHA to augment the Einsatzgruppen in Ukraine, and Poland. Shortly after the end of the war, the three survivors, Wilhelm, Viktor, and Charlotte, meet in the ruins of the same pub as before and grieve together for their lost friends, but without any sense of triumph over their survival.
, The New Yorker reviewer David Denby wrote that "Generation War has the strengths and the weaknesses of middlebrow art: it may be clunky, but it's never dull, and, once you start watching, you can't stop," and "the old accepted notion that the barbarians were confined to the S.S.
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