![]() ![]() ![]() Aloof Big Brother: Wilhelm, who has previous experience from the invasions of Poland and France, and who has attained the rank of Lieutenant, considers his bookish brother, a new recruit, to be too soft for the work of a soldier, and confesses to feeling ashamed of him on occasion.Even so, they commit various morally questionable acts and outright war crimes over the course of the series: Charly turns in a Jewish nurse to what she knows will be certain death (though the woman survives), Friedhelm executes numerous unarmed people, including a little boy, and even the otherwise noble Wilhelm executes a prisoner and orders Soviet civilians marched through a minefield. All Germans Are Nazis: Averted - none of the five main characters are depicted as loyal to the Nazi party, which would have been highly unusual for the time and is most likely a deliberate case of Artistic License to make them more sympathetic to modern viewers.Action Girl: Alina breaks out of a train bound for a concentration camp with just a knife and sheer grit.Abandoned Hospital: The military hospital where Charlotte is stationed is inevitably evacuated in the wake of the Russian advance.And as the months and years drag by, and the fighting becomes ever more brutal, for these young people the war becomes a desperate struggle not only to survive, but to retain their humanity even while serving an inhumane regime. ![]() Of course, it doesn't quite work out like that. ![]()
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