Otherwise, what happened to that German soldier wasn't rare at all. So, really, the best a German soldier could hope for was that officers saw the surrender. Like I was told, soldiers were told they had to feed their prisoners from their own rations. If a man can't hold up his end, he is a weak link that gets cut. That's the only reason why they were still alive. Having said all of that, in real life Norm would have been shot. Like War Daddy said.This thing will be over when we get thru killing them. That type of person was killed earlier in the war. The Sherman tank was a real disaster when facing German high velocity tank Cannon. American close air support and tank destroyers made the difference. Essentially, they threw tank crews at the Germans and they were slaughtered. American tanks were truly mismatched, and the General Staff knew it. Most people don't realize that there was a running fight with holdouts for a couple of years after the war.įighting that Tiger tank showed what normally happened. Factually history shows that a lot of them were summarily shot when captured. It did show the real hatred for the SS troops. That they had to be shot in the head to stop them. I was told that often they were hopped up on amphetamines, schnapps, and ether. Morality took a hike for safer country, because moral folks got killed by the young German boys. This movie stresses that killing is the only way to stop what was going on. I used to work with some old men who fought in that. By that stage of the war only the fanatics were left. I'm thinking that this was some fine acting by the whole cast. Keep good stories coming! 29 people found this helpful This holds a revered place in my Military Movie Collection. At the ending 20 minutes of the movie, I conciously said "oh THAT'S WHY" they had those previous scenes. The transformation of a raw recruit, never exposed to violence, untrained, and thrown into the grinder. The acting was great, and the story itself made it known towards then end. Some may say this "glorifies war" but that is a falsehood.if glorifies heroism, and the heroes themselves. The detail of the movie was excellent, Sherman tanks, little details like the sounds a specific shell makes when wheezing by, the in city fighting, and most important, at this stage of the war, the actual makeup of german troops at this stage, young, women and children, and the hatred of the SS troops, the demons the allied forces hated.Īlso, to major point, it demonstrates the heroism of the young undistinguished soldier. People did not come out of war zones looking they just came out of a spa. The violence of the war here was very realistic and needed to be shown. While my father said that most soldiers did not act the way portrayed here, many did. I snapshot showing what real war was like back then. I love those, but I also like movies such as this. It seems many Military movies are grand epics and such.
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