But it doesn’t do much good, and sometimes it does harm. No human has the right to feel perfect detachment from human evil, past or present. Words advertising personal rectitude become all-important, largely because they confer the ability to call out lack of personal rectitude in others. "So much of politics in this country today can seem to be about saying the right words instead of doing the right thing. I like what Deborah Orr has to say today in "The Guardian" about Ben Affleck's attempt to shrug off his own family involvement in slavery. The cartoonish approach elides the human stories that are more complex than stick-figure stories, in the midst of historical situations that did not appear to those living through them as black and white, as simple, as they do in retrospect. You make me ager to watch the series.Ī parallel case: the cartoonish way in which we're supposed to think about the history of slavery, when we're even willing to engage it at all. The extent to which the Wehrmacht, the regular German army (and not just the SS or the Gestapo), committed acts inĪlan, thank you for this great review. War goes further than many treatments of the war have gone in portraying One pacifist in the bunch becomes a hardened killer, even of innocentĬritics suggest, and this is most assuredly not a whitewash. The last two of the fivesome are a couple in love with each other, GretaĮnds up is sleeping with a Gestapo officer to get papers to get Victor out of
And then moving onto Babylon Berlin and seeing the same actors again. At one point, she learns a Ukrainian nurse Reminds me of after watching Generation War and then moving onto Dark and getting a jumpscare when I saw the actor who played Noah was also the Gestapo officer from Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter.
“Charly” as she is called, volunteersĮnthusiastically “to represent the German woman” as a nurse at the front. There is Charlotte, who is in love with Wilhelm but afraid to let him know it. Wilhelm is a dutiful son and takes his responsibilities to the Of them, Friedhelm, is mistreated by his father because he is a “soft” mother’sĪnd the narrator of the tale, is made to promise by his mother that he willīring his little brother home alive and by his father that he will bring honor At the center of this group of five close friends who have
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