"> We did get a lot of American war movies on television where Germans are
> thugs who march around like robots bellowing incomprehensible commands.
> Those are really meaningless.
Schnell!! Yeah, y'all were Hollywood's enemy du jour for about 50 years
there....it's moved on to the Middle East now...
>
> A special mention to the American tv miniseries "Holocaust"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_%28TV_miniseries%29
> That was broadcast here when I was at school. I remember we discussed
> it as trivial, but a chance to get an emotional grasp of the holocaust
> because it showed the fate of an individual family rather than just
> explaining the events in meaningless numbers. This series even changed
> the German language, because it reintroduced the word "holocaust".
> Until then the holocaust had been called "Völkermord" (genocide).
>
>
Interesting. We must be about the same age. A classmate of mine had a small
part in that mini-series, as the child of a German officer (his family had
been living in Vienna during the filming).
It was a landmark series in the US, as well, because it was one of the first
attempts to look beyond heroic war campaigns and into the complicated issues
of WWII. (same as you're saying, I think)
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