Childhood Friends: The five main characters have grown up in the same neighbourhood.After he stated his intent to sire a son by her as well, she threatened him with a knife, and was sent off to Auschwitz, though she escapes before arrival. Her daughter was taken away by the farmer because he and his wife couldn't have children. Child by Rape: Alina was repeatedly raped by the German farmer she was forced to work for as a Polish slave laborer, then got pregnant and gave birth to a girl.Chekhov's Skill: Friedhelm manages to use his fluent Russian to disguise himself as a Soviet soldier to escape the enemy lines.Cat Scare: When Wilhelm looks around an abandoned Russian cabin, he's disturbed by a black cat who knocks over some pans.Cassandra Truth: We can do a Drinking Game for all the times that Viktor tells his father that German Jews are going to have a hard time and his daddy blindly ignores him.The disillusionment leads to Wilhelm deserting the Wehrmacht twice, which may have saved his life. Break Them by Talking: Friedhelm tells Wilhelm what he's known all along: that the war is pointless.Not to mention how the things she's done for the sake of her ambition take a toll on her. Break the Haughty: Greta had always been impetuous, but even her status as a Glamorous Wartime Singer doesn't save her from imprisonment and death for treason.Break the Cutie: Especially Charlotte and Friedhelm.Break His Heart to Save Him: Greta begins an affair with Dorn in order to obtain false papers from him to help Viktor escape from Germany.Boyish Short Hair: Alina, the Polish prisoner Viktor goes on the run with.In one of his first scenes, he attempts to stuff as many books as he can into his luggage. Bookworm: Providing the situation does not merit a gun, Friedhelm Winter is never seen without a book.Big Damn Hero: As written above Charlotte is rescued just in time by Lilija from being raped by a Soviet soldier.Battleaxe Nurse: Hildegard, close to the end of the war as she begins to take out her reaction to the Germans losing the war on Charlotte.It is unknown whether any of the partisans survived. Battle Discretion Shot: After Viktor leaves the partisans, Germans run past him to invade their hideout, accompanied by screams and gunshots offscreen.Attempted Rape: Charlotte is assaulted and almost raped by a Russian soldier, but is rescued by Lilija.Anguished Declaration of Love: Charlotte to Wilhelm, after she discovers he's alive.On the other hand, he also admires Friedhelm's wit and intelligence. Aloof Big Brother: Wilhelm, who has previous experience from the invasions of Poland and France, and who has attained the rank of Lieutenant, considers his bookish brother, a new recruit, to be too soft for the work of a soldier, and confesses to feeling ashamed of him on occasion.Even so, they commit various morally questionable acts and outright war crimes over the course of the series: Charly turns in a Jewish nurse to what she knows will be certain death (though the woman survives), Friedhelm executes numerous unarmed people, including a little boy, and even the otherwise noble Wilhelm executes a prisoner and orders Soviet civilians marched through a minefield.
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All Germans Are Nazis: Averted - none of the five main characters are depicted as loyal to the Nazi party, which would have been highly unusual for the time and is most likely a deliberate case of Artistic License to make them more sympathetic to modern viewers.Action Girl: Alina breaks out of a train bound for a concentration camp with just a knife and sheer grit.Abandoned Hospital: The military hospital where Charlotte is stationed is inevitably evacuated in the wake of the Russian advance.And as the months and years drag by, and the fighting becomes ever more brutal, for these young people the war becomes a desperate struggle not only to survive, but to retain their humanity even while serving an inhumane regime. Of course, it doesn't quite work out like that.
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