It just recently appeared on Netflix streaming, and I binge-watched all three episodes. I knew it had generated some controversy, but I also knew I had to judge for myself. The movie was criticised for showing AK partisans as anti-Semites and for relativising the responsibility of the Germans.Īt the end of June 2013, the Warsaw district prosecutor's office refused to initiate an investigation into the public insult of the Polish nation in connection with the broadcasting of the film on TVP.When this German miniseries on World War II came out in Germany in 2013, I was quite anxious to watch it.
The three-part series was also broadcast by channel one of the Polish Television (TVP1) in June 2013 which sparked a discussion in Poland about the way Poles were portrayed in it.
The verdict in the case was issued at the end of 2018.Īfter the "Generation War" series was broadcast by the German public television ZDF, a heated debate began in the German media about the responsibility of "ordinary Germans" for WWII atrocities. The lawsuit was filed, along with the World Association of Home Army Soldiers, by a 96-year-old Home Army veteran, Zbigniew Radłowski. The apology is to also appear on the ZDF and UFA Fiction websites and remain there for three months. The apology is to be published on the Polish public broadcaster TVP1 channel and on German TV channels: ZDF, ZDFneo and Sat3 (these stations broadcast the series). The verdict is binding.īy the decision of the court, the producers of the series "Generation War" (German: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter) UFA Fiction and ZDF (2nd program of German television) are to apologise to the World Association of Home Army Soldiers for violating personal rights, which they did "by identifying the Polish partisan unit in the above-mentioned film as a branch of the Home Army, which lead to unfounded suggestions that this Polish military organisation had an anti-Semitic nature. The Court of Appeal in Krakow, southern Poland, ruled on Tuesday that the producers of the series “Generation War" are to publish an apology on Polish and German television for infringement of personal rights of the World Association of Home Army (AK) Soldiers.
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