The three episodes have just been broadcast in Australia as "Generation War", in German with subtitles. I watched parts of the first episode and all of the third one. I wasn't terribly impressed, for the reasons given below, but acknowledge that the film may have a positive message for German viewers.
The film's main flaws were the attitudes of the five main characters, the ludicrous use of coincidences in the plot line and the simplistic Hollywood morality in the last episode.
The main characters have surprisingly 21st century attitudes for 20-year-old Germans in the late 1930s to early 1940s.
Example: Cheerily greeting their Jewish friend with "Shalom!" on a public street in Berlin. This seems a wilful disregard of PERSEC.
As other posters have pointed out, Germans born around 1920 had their entire secondary (and university) education under Nazi ideology. Those born after 1925 had had their entire education under the Nazi system. The four leading non-Jewish characters seem not to have noticed this at all.
Mind you, this is not the first historical drama where contemporary attitudes and values are projected onto characters in the past.
The blurb for the series in the Sydney Morning Herald TV Guide was
This blockbuster miniseries vividly depicts the lives of five young German friends forced to navigate the unconscionable moral compromises of life under Hitler in Berlin, 1941.
The vast majority of non-Jewish Germans in 1941 faced no such compromises. The two characters who are actually morally compromised during the course of the series are the two who die, but each in their own way makes a redemptive gesture before death. This is a very Hollywood morality - they were bad so they have to be killed, but they did something for others at the very end so we (and God) can forgive them.
This is artistic drama, certainly not historical record or insight, even if the physical appearance of places, people and events at that time is accurate. And that's fine. My country has not had, and hopefully never will have, a national experience as dark as that of Germany 1932-1945. So it is entirely understandable that the producers may wish to reassure current German viewers that there were Germans (and Russians) in WWII who struggled against monstrous circumstances to maintain the flickering flame of human decency, e.g. people like Sophie and Hans Scholl and the White Rose group at Munich University.
To conclude, the series shows the appearance of the time, even the mindset of most of Germany at the time, but its five main characters do not share that mindset.
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Its interesting that it's getting new titles in different countries, at least the BBC one is a translation of the original. I don't know why our's was called 'generation war', it did lead to some of us worrying that it would be dubbed into English, but thankfully it was sub-titled. Thanks for the 'heads up' on this one, it will be well worth watching again !
