I agree with Domen, that the AK was not generally anti-semitic and just spend their time for killing Jews.
After the third series the ZDF showed a documentary about a polish villages in which jews were protected by Poles and which was burned down.īTW, ambassador Marganski said in a german morning show, that antisemitism in Poland existed and that the knowledge about it is common, as well as anti-semitic excesses of the Home Army. The german Jew Viktor is protected by a Polish women, the son of the polish farmer helps Viktor as well and even the partisan commander leds Viktor go.
If german ambassadors would complain, if there is another movie which shows german in a bad light, they would not have time for something else. So the message of this film to young Germans is clear - ancestors of others were much worse than our German mothers and fathers. While majority of Germans - "our fathers and mothers" - are shown as good guys, only forced to do bad things by the "bad system". The problem is blowing things out of proportions - 99% of all Poles shown in this movie, are evil guys. Maybe a similar man really existed - the film shows a fictional storyline, it is not based on real events. The problem is not showing one Home Army officer as an Anti-Semite.
Then the commander orders to take ammunition, but to deliberately leave all Jews locked where they are instead of opening the doors. In another scene of the movie, the Home Army captures a German ammunition train and finds out that Jews are transported in this train as well. "We drown Jews like cats" - says the Home Army commander in this movie.
But "Unsere Mutter, unsere Vater" shows the Home Army itself as an anti-Semitic organization, even worse than the SS. There could be some Anti-Semites in the Home Army, like in any other organization in the world. Blackmailing was officially condemned by the Home Army. While in reality, the Home Army - where it could - was helping Jews, fighting against Blackmailers and executing them. The Home Army soldiers in this film are more busy with fighting Jews than with fighting Germans. So I wouldn't say that it is a Russophobe film - you can find many good Russians in it. "We are Soviet soldiers who bring freedom, not rapists!"Īnd then she let the German POW to go away. Those five, too, haven't weathered the war without losses, and those who survived will never be the same again.In this movie when a Red Army soldier wants to rape a German POW military nurse, a Soviet Mrs sergeant says: Millions of people on all sides have died a meaningless death. Four Christmasses have since passed, without a reunion. Four years previously, the five friends had wanted to meet in Berlin at Christmas. Friedhelm, too, is sent towards the advancing Red Army with a contigent in the last days of the war. The war is on its last legs, but still thousands are dying each day. He makes his difficult and dangerous way back to Berlin. Wilhelm uses the chaos of retreat and defects from his punitive battalion. He wants Greta to testify that he had helped her boyfriend Viktor to escape from Germany: Her life in exchange for her signature. Like so many others, he sees the end of the NS-regime approaching and tries to save his own neck. Greta is visited in prison by her former lover and protector Dorn. While Friedhelm's new unit in Poland is still cracking down brutally on the partisan group Viktor is a member of, Charlotte's field hopital is overrun by the Russians.
The Red Army is now advancing on all fronts. But the war tears them asunder once more. Especially Charlotte is overwhelmed by her feelings, since she thought Wilhelm dead. In Russia, Charlotte and Wilhelm meet again - a disturbing encounter for both. Wilhelm's death sentence has been mitigated to a transfer into a punitive battalion.