![]() And still we could not bring ourselves to hate her. Likewise Charly, the volunteer nurse who betrayed a Jewish colleague at the earliest opportunity. The moral collapse of Nazi officer Wilhelm Winter (the Don Draper of the piece) was brilliantly captured: it's rare for an audience not to know how to respond to a character but there was a fantastic ambiguity to his downfall. But I also thought it was one of the most interesting and moving things I have seen on television in a while: superbly acted, gripping and challenging. The strange thing for me is that I agree with most of the criticisms of Generation War. Martha Kearney, presenting Saturday's night's postmortem panel show, used the words "five hours of self-pity". The Spectator dismissed it as "cheesy hackwork". When, in November 2013, plans were announced to air the series here, Polish protesters gathered outside the BBC under the slogan: "Stop Nazi Propaganda." They were incensed by the depiction of Polish partisans as antisemitic. ![]()
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