
The discussion was intelligent and stimulating and the three academics, specialists in this period, historians Richard Evans and David Cesarani and writer/literature professor Eva Hoffman, all expressed their agreement on how well-made and exciting the film was as well as the range of problems it raised in terms of the history of East/Central Europe during the Second World War. This strategy was once fairly common on the BBC after controversial films or television productions but this is the first time (that I can remember) when a foreign language production received this kind of attention. The discussion was chaired by Martha Kearney, a regular presenter of cultural programming on the channel.

Volker Bruch as Wilhelm, the narrator of the storyĪfter the final episode of Generation War, BBC2 in the UK offered a discussion of the series by three distinguished academics alongside the series producer.
