Other contributions to the programme came from Witold Sobków, the Polish Ambassador to the UK, the scriptwriters of two recent British war dramas, Anthony Horowitz ( Foyle’s War) and Sarah Phelps ( The Crimson Field) and Anne McElroy, a writer and broadcaster who has written extensively on German history. Sir Richard Evans, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University and author of a three-volume history of the Third Reich and Dr Eva Hoffman of Kingston University, London, whose Jewish parents survived the Holocaust in hiding in the part of Ukraine that was then Polish.
David Cesarani, Professor of History at Royal Holloway, London and author of several works on the Holocaust Prof. The members of the discussion panel were: Benjamin Benedict, producer of the series Prof. For viewers in the UK it is available on the I-Player until 17 May, and is described by the BBC’s website as below:įollowing the final episode of the award-winning German drama Generation War, Martha Kearney is joined by a panel including the programme makers, leading historians and cultural commentators, to examine the historical facts behind the series, the controversy it has caused and why now Germany is confronting the difficult issues of its past.
The BBC showed a discussion programme titled Generation War: Fact and Fiction immediately after the final episode. As described in this blog post, it tells the story of five German friends from 1941-45: two brothers, Wilhelm and Friedhelm, who are soldiers, Charlotte, a nurse, Greta, a singer and Viktor, a Jew. Its German title is Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter, which translates as Our Fathers, our Mothers.
Generation War, the German WWII TV drama series, has now finished on the BBC.
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