Lehrjahre beim Feind

original title:
Lehrjahre beim Feind
other titles:
Hitlerjungen in Kriegsgefangenschaft
country / year of production:
Germany / 2005
original length:
90 min. , color
premiere:
12 July 2005
genre:
Documentary
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director:
Ulla Lachauer , Winfried Lachauer
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plot synopsis:
This documentary deals with the last days of World War II, when also children became soldiers. Helmut Graf, Karl Heinz Mehler und Kurt Rockenfeller are only 15 years old, when they look forwrd to go to war on April 20th in 1945. The boys get caught by French soldiers and are braught to France. Their captivity takes four years, in an area of France, where the resistance is very strong. Frenchs and Germans can't cope with each other without prejudices.
keywords:
children , youth during wartime , behind enemy lines , Resistance , resistance, opposition , captivity
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Klaus Granzow: Tagebuch eines Hitlerjungen 1943-1945. Schünemann, 1965
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