Charlotte: Charlotte was a simple nurse. She came to the field hospital with a heart of "serving the German soldiers". Originally, she was also indoctrinated with racism by the Nazis, reporting on Lilith, a Jew who worked as a nurse in a dirty hospital. However, as the soldiers on the front line were constantly being sent to the hospital, a hoarse roar of pain, the icy corpses that were ineffective for rescue, eroded her will like a nightmare, and her spirit was on the verge of collapse. When Friedham told her that the news of Wilham's death was the straw that broke the camel's back, Charlotte sobbed, and she handed herself over to the medics for support. In fact, when the four met after Greta's tour in 1943, Wilham had already hinted that she should not wait for him any more. No one can stay out of it, so waiting is fruitless. During the follow-up treatment of the wounded, she became more aware that the Nazis would not win this war. Later, she even used aggravating methods to help soldiers get leave to escape the war, and she also learned Russian from the Soviet Union Sanya. The war burned to the hospital, and she didn't have time to evacuate. She settled the wounded in the hospital with Sanya, who was unable to evacuate with him and became a "Soviet traitor". The Soviets occupied the hospital, Sanya was shot, and Lilith, who was transformed into a Soviet officer, rescued Charlotte and let her continue working as a nurse for the Soviets in the hospital.
Victor: As a Jew, he is undoubtedly a person who understands the situation of the Jews after the Crystal Night. All the Jews who were taken away have never appeared again. He bid farewell to his parents who still had fantasies about the Nazi newspaper, and started his escape with fake documents obtained by his girlfriend Greta. He was arrested by the Gestapo, loaded onto a train bound for the concentration camp, and escaped by jumping with a Polish woman to Poland, where the anti-Semitic atmosphere was also very serious. Hiding in the east and Tibet, they were forced to join the guerrillas under the introduction of a farmer and worked for the guerrillas. After the guerrillas robbed the train, he released his fellow Jewish prisoners, and the guerrilla leader secretly let him leave because his Jewish identity was revealed. On the way to leave, he witnessed, led by the Leading Party to destroy the German squad of the partisans and met Friedham by chance. Under his suggestion, Victor embarked on a journey back to Berlin, Germany, because the war was about to end, the Nazis There will be no more concentration camps and no more Gestapo. In the end, he returned to the starting point, looking at everything that is right and wrong, looking at the home of himself and his girlfriend Greta, and watching the former commando captain transformed into the right-hand man of the Americans, he must be filled with emotion.
Greta: Greta had a dream of being a star since she was a child. By chance, she got the help of the commando captain through unspoken rules, and also obtained a pass to give Victor the opportunity to leave Germany. If there was no war, Greta would have gone farther and farther on the road to stardom, but the whirlpool of war made her life completely different. After Greta became famous, the commando captain gave her an empty promise - a post-war world tour, provided she went to Warsaw east to boost morale with the prestige front-line fighters she performed. In the field hospital, she met Charlotte, Wilham, and Friedham. Naive, she still believed in the lies prepared by the Führer, and looked forward to the days when she would perform in Rome and Milan in the near future. After the frontline battle was tight, when the condolences evacuated, Greta put on a star-like air and was abandoned in the field hospital. She tried to contact the commander through Charlotte to arrange her return to Berlin, but was called by Charlotte to help treat the wounded. During her time in the field hospital, she saw so many deaths that she was accustomed to it, and it was here that she thoroughly understood the war. In the end, she returned to Berlin with Friedham in a truck carrying the wounded. In the bar, she was molested by young soldiers, "This battle can't be won." He was imprisoned on charges of war pessimism and inciting the masses, and at the same time revealed to the commando captain's wife that she was his mistress. During the interrogation, she thought that the commando captain would let her go because of their secret relationship, but she did not think that the commando captain had developed a disgust for her and wanted to distance himself from her, when she told When he himself was pregnant, the commando captain suddenly punched her in the stomach and mercilessly locked her in a cell. While in prison, the commando captain tried to "save" her out on the condition of giving her testimony, but her heart was dead, and she wanted to wait peacefully in prison for the war to end. When the Soviet army was about to hit Berlin, the commando captain was afraid that Greta would come out and expose him after the defeat, and secretly executed her.
Friedham: Friedham is a young man of literature and art. He had a pessimistic attitude towards war from the very beginning. When the five separated, he used "war will bring out the worst of us". Rebutting Wilham's "War makes a man grow". When he arrived at the front line, when others were vying to charge and make meritorious deeds, he also watched the war passively and was ostracized by other soldiers. After experiencing Wilham's shooting of Soviet military commissar prisoners of war, commando captain (SS commando commando commander No. 2, wherever there are Jews, there are commandos), shooting a Jewish girl, and seeing a swamp full of corpses , he had the idea of letting himself die. He didn't care when the Soviet fighter planes searched for targets at night, and Wilham's words stopped him. The recruiting camp was bombed, and he was also beaten by angry soldiers. After that, he also learned the way of survival in war, from disgust to numbness, to become a qualified soldier, understand that if you don't want to die, you must start before the enemy kills you. The man who transformed Friedham was a freshman college student who, had there been no war, would have enrolled in the winter semester under Professor Heidegger. With the deepening of the exchange, Friedham learned about the family background of the college students - the only son in the family, his parents had children in his later years, he was successful in school, and he was forced to join the war (his mother went to the army to intercede and was locked up overnight), but All this did not help him in the survival of the war, and he was killed by the Soviet army soon after, giving his young life. This incident was a great blow to Friedham. Before that, he also witnessed his own Wilham being hit by a rocket and disappeared. Missing in the war meant death. After suffering two consecutive blows, Friedham was evacuated wearing a Soviet military uniform. His heart was accidentally injured by other soldiers, and he was sent to the field hospital where Charlie was located. He was judged by the military doctor to be unsaved, but he saved Friedham after Charlie's repeated requests. At the same time, he also informed Charlie and Greta that Wilham had died in the battle. After recovering, he and Greta returned to Berlin in a truck carrying the wounded. Also at the bar, Friedham was provoked by young soldiers, implying that "such people are the reason Germany has not won the war yet", which led him to leave Berlin and return to the battlefield after his mother cried. This time, he was found by the commando captain (the same Nazi officer who gave the little Jewish girl candy, turned and shot her), and threatened Wilham with the 500th probation team to save her life. , invited him to join the SS and participate in the guerrilla campaign in the rear. Friedham thought that he had no choice but to join the notorious SS. After that, he became in the hands of the commando captain The sharpest sword, specially designed to kill the guerrillas and the villagers who shield the guerrillas, of course, also includes women and children. The commando commander also took a close-up of the murder. Later, he met Victor and persuaded him to return to Berlin, at last he surrendered his Volkswagen (the old and the sick), and after telling one of the old men to send back his cherished photos , calmly picked up the gun and walked towards the hail of bullets by the Soviet army, completing the fate of the soldiers to die in battle.
Wilham: Wilham had been involved in the wars against France and Poland, and had already made his mark in the army at a young age. And there is only a layer of window paper between him and Charlie. He plans to pierce the window paper and marry him after the war, and live a happy life. With the progress of the war, Wilham's full of blood has witnessed and even executed countless massacres. Watching the soldiers coming in batches, his faces became more and more immature, and batches of "leaves" gradually became colder. down. When the balance of victory in the war was constantly swaying and tilted towards the opposite side, his psychology further collapsed. At that time, the war for him was not for the Nazis and for Germany, but for Friedham and himself to live and wait for the war. the end of the fight. In the ensuing war, he was hit by rockets twice in a row, which became the last straw that crushed Wilham. Since then, he has run away, from this disgusting endless war, from this war that cannot be won. While escaping the battle by the small lake, he was caught by lost German soldiers and almost executed, but at this time the German army was losing and retreating. The 500th Probation Brigade lived a life dominated by stupid bosses. After so many years of struggling, Wilham has already accumulated a wealth of survival experience, making him constantly escape from death. Towards the end of the war, he killed his stupid boss, escaped the probation brigade and returned to Berlin.
"War brings out the worst in people." Because of the war, the fate of each of them has changed dramatically. They did not change the war, but were changed by the war. They were just five ordinary Germans who went their separate ways four years ago because of the Fuehrer's conscription. Four years later, in the defeated Germany, in the desolate Berlin, in a dilapidated tavern, the five ill-fated people reunited in another way that no one expected. Just like Germany at that time was fooled by the Nazis into a dream of unifying the spring and autumn, until the dream turned into a nightmare, only to find that it had nothing in the end, and the country was waking up and becoming fragmented.
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