[Movie] Mein Krieg; Amateur ​WW2 Films by ​German ​Soldiers

[Shadrach]

Late in the 1980s, two documentary film makers found six German men, all in their 60s and 70s, who had been soldiers in the German invasion of the USSR in 1942. Each carried an 8mm camera into battle and they still had their film. "Mein Kreig" alternates between interviews with these older men, now apologetic, philosophical, or defiant about their participation, and the footage they shot. It's chronological: basic training, the train trip East, roof-top vistas of war-torn Warsaw, peasants in Belarus, the downing with carbine volleys of a Russian plane, winter, a holiday at the Black Sea, mud, impassable roads, death, destruction and retreat. "Home, that was the front," one says.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=379776800074906671

(how do you post a URL to a video file without embedding it?)

Just watched this one, thought it was so good so I should share it with others interested in the eastern front.

-S

 

[Lt_Kettch]

I have seen this a while ago pretty interesting.

There was also a documentary called "Rothkirchs Krieg" but sadly it was only show in the German television. Rothkirch was a high ranking officer in the Wehrmacht and also an hobby filmer. He made a lot of private films and they also interviewed his son who was still alive. He told how he visted France with his father just after the defeat.

Now I am considering to upload that ...

 

[Shadrach]

Please do post it online if you can Kettch, would be interesting.

Google video has a pretty laxed policy for posting older educational stuff, which is fortunate as it would otherwise be really hard to get a hold of

 

[Gamburd]

I was able to see this in the U.S., circa 1993-1994(?), at an art museum's theatre; thanks for uploading it; I only saw it that one time, so I appreciate being able to see it a second time.

I have never seen it shown on U.S. or Canadian TV, or sale on VHS or DVD at stores, or have a second run in any theater here (though I'm sure you can buy a copy somewhere on the internet).

 

[Feldwebel Horst]

very impressive, it

 

[Lt_Kettch]

I will upload that but first I need to know how to make subtitles (with Windows Movie Maker?) without them you wouldn't have much of the show.
And I can't promise to upload it in the next weeks but should be up until next month.

 

[hayu876]

Would be interesting to see the full version on DVD, but I haven't found it on the market so far...

 

[Lt_Kettch]

Would be interesting to see the full version on DVD, but I haven't found it on the market so far...

What do you mean? On youtube is the whole program they uploaded it in one piece.

 

[hayu876]

What do you mean? On youtube is the whole program they uploaded it in one piece.

Indeed... my mistake. Was thinking of a similar series in several parts...

 

[nymets1104]

Was going to make a thread for this Video as I just watched it a few days ago but I found this old thread. Thought I would post the YouTube link which has embedded English Subtitles. A very good documentary that really shows the human side of a German Soldier on the Eastern front.

Mein Krieg Amateur WW2 Films by German Soldiers - YouTube

 

[Freak1]

Awesome docu!