ok boomer

People just hate seeing the germans soldiers as humans who had their own complexities and issues instead of just a mindless horde of Stalhelms to be mowed down for entertainment.

@@Mautiks dude I am 23 haha

Even for a child who is 14 years old can understand that this movie does not glorify German. Surely you had found retards commenting on that.

But they did spill innocent blood didn't they? They could've rebelled against Hitler, couldn't they? When Goebbels asked the German nation if they want total war, they loved it and went on with it. Now that they have lost, I am supposed to believe that in the end they had no choice but to kill 40 million people? 26 million of which were the Russians that I am supposed to see as problem for the world? I don't think I will buy that.

they are evil sadistic insane villanous monsters. no excuses accepted

@@veronicav27 room temperature IQ comment

@@cosairfps don't make excuses for them

@@veronicav27 I'm not going to enter a discussion, as I'd just end up making fun of you.

@@cosairfps I'm not entering stupid discussions either. sorry

Yeah, the _"real Friedhelm"_ died long before May 45. He didn't just want to physically survive the war. He wanted to survive as a human, in which he didn't succeed. That's why he made his last stand.

@@yannick245 english beow: Ich denke meine Großväter waren Leute die versucht haben zu überleben und dabei Mensch zu bleiben. Die Männer aus der Familie meiner Mutter waren bei der Flak. Ihr Onkel hatte eine Freundin in Frankreich. Der andere Großvater war in der Sowjetunion und von der Kompanie hat nur ein Fahrzeug mit 6 Männern überlebt. Warum? Mein Opa hatte sich mit den Frauen in deren Haus er lebte angefreundet und konnte daher russisch. Sie kamen nach Italien und in den 1960er Jahren war er mit seiner Familie in einer Stadt und Italienerinnen erkannten ihn, freuten sich ihn gesund zu sehen, das nur weil er anständig zu ihnen war. I think my grandfathers were people who tried to survive and stay human. The men from my mother's family were at the Flak. Her uncle had a girlfriend in France. The other grandfather was in the Soviet Union and of the company only one vehicle with 6 men survived. Why? My grandfather had made friends with the women in whose house he lived and could therefore speak Russian. They came to Italy and in the 1960s he was in a city with his family and Italian women recognized him, were happy to see him healthy, just because he was decent to them.

he made that last stand to first of all end his life cause he was ashamed of himself and was an empty vessel, and because he wanted to show thosae young hitleryouth boys what war truely is its cruel@@yannick245

@@tavish4699 Yeah, well. You just elaborated my answer. I don't see a contradiction.

Actually compared to Wilhelm who had survived the war and has to deal with the fact that his entire platoon had been wiped out spent the last two years of the war believing his little his little brother was dead to find out that Friedhelm had survived for the last two years of the war only to die just days before the end of the war Friedhelm wouldn't have to deal with the massive survivor's guilt that Wilhelm would have to live with for the rest of his life

Und jetzt sind wir wieder zurück im Krieg. Putin hat es uns erlaubt, das selbst mitzuerleben.

Genau....

All die Gründe der vorherigen Jahrzenten, woraus die verschiedenen Seiten gekämpft haben sind ebenso schrecklich. Und manche wollen den Krieg, auch heute. Für manche gibt es Vorteile von Kriegen, sonst würde es keine Kriege geben.

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Thank you for watching!

What is your guys’ opinion as to why Friedhelm killed himself? His character broke my freakin heart probably because he reminded me of myself in a lot of ways. Me personally I thought he decided to sacrifice himself because he simply couldn’t live with the person he had turned into, he never wanted to be a soldier yet the war conquered him and turned him into someone he hated. He may have felt guilt for the actions he had committed during the war and he felt that he had failed himself for not living up to his moral convictions so sacrificing his life for the kids was a way to amend the terrible wrongs he had committed during the conflict. Which is one hell of a sacrifice in my opinion and it says a lot about the strength of his character. Anyways sorry for the long tangent, I’d love to hear what you all think

@@greenlime1997 You got it. And his _"suicide"_ is like a last stand. The _"real Friedhelm"_ died long before...

@@yannick245 I agree he was already dead, I’m not sure what he would’ve been like if he decided to survive. I have no doubt we would’ve suffered from terrible PTSD from all the trauma he had witnessed and from all the atrocities he had committed. Just goes to show you how tragic and senseless war is and how it can turn good people into shells of their former selves.

I’m not so sure. Sometimes they were the ones least inclined to empathy and merely regarded ethics as a clinical matter. I put a lot of thought into this as a combat veteran. It has bothered me greatly. Often, the most sensitive and kind were the ones more cruelly distorted and used.

Thank you for the kind words!

@@rickygrenadier6303 Thank you! How about making clips like that about Victor and Wilhelm too?!

It is actually in some countries

It's purchasable for a small fee on UK Prime.

In Italy they show it on tv almost every year. Yes it should be on Netflix but the american critics slaughtered it

@@AnnamariaLeprini it is on Prime though. I am British so my ancestors may have fought in this war, and against the German side - however to me this film simply shows the horror and pointlessness of war, and how one person has to essentially 'become a monster' to get through it. Even if he had escaped the Russians at the end, his life would have no doubt felt like a death sentence anyway, because of what he had to do. I watch it over and over, it makes me sad that we still don't seem to have learned from this. I don't doubt there were thousands of real 'Friedhelms' out there. :(

@@maryreid4273 I am a German.

Thank you! Soundtrack is in the description.

...so what?

@@biglebowski5737 Falsche Frage

@@susannesperre9573 ......so what?

@@biglebowski5737 Nix what! Hat sich ausgewhattet....Ich finde die Bemerkung in diesem Fall unpassend. Mehr als na und kommt da nicht?

@@susannesperre9573 ....so what?

Ich mach auch immer im Krieg ein. Marmelade zum Beispiel.

И японцев?

And how many more wars in history, how many bloodthirsty dictators there have been

great quote!