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.
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.