Incorrect claims about history should be met with facts, not images made only to shock and provoke.Īlso, ZDF is an independent non-profit TV-station founded by the German federal states (not the central government) so why use Merkel if not to score a political point? It would be like blaming the Swedish government for some bad TV-series shown on the SVT-station, it is makes little sense.

I have no problem with being critical of bad historical material shown around the world, there is definitely no shortage of it, I do however have problems with the political use of such images as it weakens the power of them and is offensive to the suffers. It first aired in Germany earlier this year, and caused something of a sensation, drawing enormous audiences, provoking spirited debate and anguished reflection and. I say this as a member of nation that was to exterminated by Germans, and I know that many others feel the same. 'Unsere Mtter, unsere Vter' - a historian's review I finally got around to watching the last part of the German mini-series 'Unsere M tter, unsere V ter' last night. In my opinion that image is offensive to all those who died in the camps, regardless of nationality, they deserve better than to be used to score some petty political points.Īttempts to resist white washing the history of the greatest organized genocide known in the history of man are not petty political points in my opinion. They promise to get together after the war, but it will change their lives forever.Lokanski wrote:It is a fitting metaphor on how the series tries to distort the history.

While Greta (Katherina Schüttler) is a talented singer who longs to become another Marlene Dietrich her Jewish boyfriend Viktor (Ludwig Trepte) still cannot convince his parents to leave Germany. Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte, called Charly (Miriam Stein), a young nurse who looks forward to serve in the Wehrmacht, also on the eastern front. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm (Volker Bruch) is off to the eastern front with his younger brother Friedhelm (Tom Schilling), a sensitive dreamer more interested in literature than warfare.

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It tells the story of five German friends, aged around 20, on their different paths through Nazi Germany and World War II. Unsere Mtter, unsere Vter, produced by Nico Hofmann's company TeamWorx for ZDF in 2014, was the most expensive German TV production to date and was successfully sold to a global audience, including the US where it was awarded an Emmy, and China. Friendship Synopsis TV Miniseries (2013). ZDF, Teamworx Television-Film Genre TV Series.

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