True Films 3.0 - Kevin Kelly

Mein Krieg
In English: My Private War. Home movies shot by six different Nazi youth
as they marched toward the Russian front as German soldiers in World
War II, some of it in color. They narrate the footage later as older men.
What you get is the everyday details of their life then, and how they saw
the world, what they found important, or new, and what they were thinking.
It smells true.
By Harriet Eder and
Thomas Kufus
1991, 90 min.
Available from Amazon
The soldiers take time out to relax with music (top). The
Germans celebrate, helmets waving, after they take down
a plane with a bazooka (above). More common is the
need to dig foxholes (right).
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