Though it earned praises for not just depicting the Wehrmacht, Germany’s armed forces during the Second World War, in a black-and-white picture as well as not simply placing the good and bad sides directly but creating complex characters who were neither perpetrators nor victims, the producers of the controversial mini-series also received backlash for their work.įor one, Many Polish were angered at how “Generation War” portrayed Polish antisemitism. Its story took the time span of five years starting in 1941 in Berlin and ending sometime after the end of WWII, in 1945-46 with the production probing on the struggles these five characters experienced throughout that time. Main Cast of the Mini-Series “Generation War”: Ludwig Trepte as Viktor, Katharina Schüttler as Greta, Tom Schilling as Friedhelm, Volker Bruch as Wilhelm, and Miriam Stein as Charlotte.The controversial mini-series focuses on five friends and the various paths they took throughout the war years - as Wehrmacht soldiers assigned in the Eastern Front, as a war nurse, as an aspiring singer and even one portrayed as a Jewish tailor. Furthermore, the production also went into broadcast internationally. More than seven million Germans tuned in to watch its premier episode.
The controversial mini-series, “Generation War”, first came out in Germany’s public television ZDF as well as in Austria sometime in March last year.