During 1945 we see through the eyes of the Berliners the reduction of their city through aerial bombardment to a city reduced in the end rubble. Told by us by its people, it's conquerors and those who were sequestered it's an incredible story of a year in which the Third Reich falls and the WWII comes to an end. Russia invades closely followed by by the UK and USA and Allies. The experiences of the people are are explained through their diaries and we live them through their experiences with Russian soldier rapes. I suppose it's women who most often keep diaries, and it's they who we know and follow the stories. The mother who doesn't know what happened to her husband and daughters, who we found where murdered in Auschwitz. This is the most upsetting part of the story.
We heard from other people who had prominent roles in the military, and from the Nuremberg trials. We saw excerpt from when the BBC correspondent first encountered the horrific events at the concentration camps and saw corpses and living skeletons, evidence of what the Nazis had been doing to the Jewish people.
The story depicted life during this year and how it was received by the people. For them it wasn't too bad, for the Jews, it can't be recorded. As for Hitler, he took the cowards way out. After subjecting his people to unmitigated air bombardment, the city was reduced to rubble and the people virtually destroyed. Russian troops invaded and raped the civilians and destroyed the city, the Americans and Allies split Berlin and Germany for many decades after the war. It is for myself, from the UK, not easy to watch. I was born 11 years after the war.
It's resonates now, with the war in Ukrainian, which is so unnecessary. All wars are pointless.
We heard from other people who had prominent roles in the military, and from the Nuremberg trials. We saw excerpt from when the BBC correspondent first encountered the horrific events at the concentration camps and saw corpses and living skeletons, evidence of what the Nazis had been doing to the Jewish people.
The story depicted life during this year and how it was received by the people. For them it wasn't too bad, for the Jews, it can't be recorded. As for Hitler, he took the cowards way out. After subjecting his people to unmitigated air bombardment, the city was reduced to rubble and the people virtually destroyed. Russian troops invaded and raped the civilians and destroyed the city, the Americans and Allies split Berlin and Germany for many decades after the war. It is for myself, from the UK, not easy to watch. I was born 11 years after the war.
It's resonates now, with the war in Ukrainian, which is so unnecessary. All wars are pointless.