Alert for two important Hitler resistance-related programmes on BBC2

[Guest]

These two programmes look fascinating and I hope that they will be as full of insight as this description suggests

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14572578

[Stillhomewardbound]

Zon't be reedikkulus .... resistance is ffutile!

[amateur51]

Zon't be reedikkulus .... resistance is ffutile!

Your much-missed father would have been a shoe-in for a Nazi officer in this, I reckon SHB

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks for that, AM51

I wonder how many saw the documentary on BBC 4 last Tuesday, "Surviving Hitler: a Love Story". It was about a Jewish girl, Jutta Cords, living with her family in Germany, who fell in love with a German soldier in 1934 subsequently involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler, and who managed to escape. Now in her 90s it was she who told the story, with remarkable detachment and in fluent English. Her parents were separated and interned in concentration camps; she herself narrowly avoided rape by a Russian soldier during the Soviet "liberation" of Berlin by feigning insanity, and her father almost certain death when the Americans bombed the camp and they forced their guards to let them out. She and every one of her close ones managed to survive, through their own and others' sheer personal bravery and self-sacrifice, to meet up at the end of the war, when she and the soldier were finally able to marry.

I did not stay tuned for the programme which followed, "My Father Was a Nazi Commandant", being unable to take any more at that emotional level, but if the first programme was anything to go by, this series should be too good to miss.

S-A

[amateur51]

Thanks for that, AM51

I wonder how many saw the documentary on BBC 4 last Tuesday, "Surviving Hitler: a Love Story". It was about a Jewish girl, Jutta Cords, living with her family in Germany, who fell in love with a German soldier in 1934 subsequently involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler, and who managed to escape. Now in her 90s it was she who told the story, with remarkable detachment and in fluent English. Her parents were separated and interned in concentration camps; she herself narrowly avoided rape by a Russian soldier during the Soviet "liberation" of Berlin by feigning insanity, and her father almost certain death when the Americans bombed the camp and they forced their guards to let them out. She and every one of her close ones managed to survive, through their own and others' sheer personal bravery and self-sacrifice, to meet up at the end of the war, when she and the soldier were finally able to marry.

I did not stay tuned for the programme which followed, "My Father Was a Nazi Commandant", being unable to take any more at that emotional level, but if the first programme was anything to go by, this series should be too good to miss.

S-A

Thanks for this S_A - I'll see if it's on iPlayer

Later: It is available, til 26 August

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b013ffkv/Surviving_Hitler_A_Love_Story/

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh great - for anyone who missed it. Thanks again AM!

[Stillhomewardbound]

My apologies, SA ... I was being flippant, rather than trite. Mea culpa.

SHB

[Stillhomewardbound]

I was reminded of this recent, moving obituary:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8682362/Rudolf-Brazda.html

[Serial_Apologist]

My apologies, SA ... I was being flippant, rather than trite. Mea culpa.

SHB

No reason to apologise whatsoever, Stillhomewardbound.

[amateur51]

I was reminded of this recent, moving obituary:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...lf-Brazda.html

Extremely moving I agree SHB. Many thanks for posting