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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
Of course it calls itself "anti-war" but this is what the promo shots look like:
actors playing nazis
The trailer makes it look like a typical war movie. But the protagonists are German soldiers. I'm sure there will be a scene or two that show they're meanies.
Looks like this movie is getting a theatrical run in Germany. I wonder what that means...
Let's be real, if this movie was going to be true to life, the tank would break down a kilometre down the road from the depot. If it did, in fact, make it further than that, it would've been taken out the second it left the frontlines, because it's a stupid thing to bring on a "secret mission"
Stalingrad is a German film and was completely unapologetic towards Germany during WWII. The Wehrmacht soldiers commit war crimes with no remorse. They claim they're on a mission blessed by God. They pledge their loyalty to Hitler. They excitedly talk about killing all Russians to make way for German farmers. Then they all end up surrounded with no supplies or food, freezing to death as the Soviets hunt them down.
Hopefully this newer film will be like that and not the godawful shit that was Generation War.
Is that the one where that troop of nazis have that russian collaborator gf and then when she ditches them she gets shot by soviet military personnel? Because I remember that part.
I dunno because I gave up after an episode and a half. The series starts right off the bat with clean Wehrmacht shit. One of the friends of the group of Germans the stories centers around is Jewish. During the time the series takes place, Jews were either hidden like Anne Frank's family or they were given over to the authorities. The group would either have to hide their friend or (more likely) would have turned him in.
The series tries to present the Holocaust as something only carried out by German high command and the SS. The reality was the entire country actively participated. There was no way you could not know because nearly every town had a concentration camp or a ghetto. Furthermore, the majority of undesirables were turned in by their friends and neighbors to local police. The SS didn't go searching door-to-door looking for hidden compartments. They relied on the antisemitism of everyday Germans to hunt people down.
Generation War downplays all this. The characters don't know Jews are being carried off to their deaths. They don't display any antisemitism. They're just some good ol' wholesome Germans that were victims of a war that magically appeared out of nowhere.
It's like if you made a story about the antebellum South where the main characters have a black friend who is free, don't know slavery is a thing, somehow end up fighting for the Confederacy, and then they're portrayed as being the majority of Southerners.
Edit: just realized you meant Stalingrad lmao. In Stalingrad, the Germans take a Russian girl hostage and abuse her in various ways. I forget if they shot her or someone else did. I know she dies towards the end.
Yeah that sounds very much revisionist. I can imagine some people coped themselves into thinking jewish people got deported to palestine or not knowing HOW jewish people got killed, but similarly to the "kids in cages" debacle, most people aware enough knew that it surely isnt going to be pretty where the jewish citizens were taken.
Yeah
spoiler
It's not that she is a collaborator, she's a prisoner tied to a bed held by German officers and they untie her and she's going to lead them out. They get spotted from hundreds of meters away and she is cut down by a machine-gun.It's one of the themes of the film that the people they try to help - the young woman, and the little boy Kolya, all get killed by the war.