Ansichten vom Ende - Einsatz an der Ostfront 1945 (2/2)

Watch the first part of the documentary "Views from the End - Deployment on the Eastern Front 1945" here:    • Ansichten vom Ende - Einsatz an der Ostfro...   Former soldiers, officers, Hitler Youth members, and refugees/expellees share their personal experiences and the feelings that moved them in the final weeks and days of the war, covering the period from the beginning of 1945 until the surrender in May 1945. Footage from the various sectors of the Eastern Front, from East Prussia to the final battles in Berlin, with reports from those involved, alternates with interviews that explore questions about the motives for continuing to fight, the influence of Nazi propaganda, and the hopes and expectations at the end of the war or while in captivity. Interviewees: Karl Günter von Hase (Major, Knight's Cross recipient, former State Secretary) Reinhard Appel (War Operations Leader of the Hitler Youth Division, retired Editor-in-Chief of ZDF) Lothar Loewe (Hitler Youth, dispatcher with the Panzerjagdkommando, journalist) Karl Gass (retired Lieutenant, author, DEFA documentary director) Erich Mende (Major, Knight's Cross recipient, former Federal Minister) Dr. Richard von Weizsäcker (retired Captain, former Federal President) Klaus Woche (member of the Waffen SS, employee) Marion Gräfin Dönhoff (editor of "Die Zeit") Dr. F. W. Christians (Company Commander, Board Member of Deutsche Bank AG) Dr. B. Nielsen-Stokkebye (Intelligence Officer in the Courland Army, ZDF Foreign Affairs Editor) Dr. Hans Strathus (Ensign, Member of the Board of Management of Commerzbank) A film by Irmgard von zur Mühlen (Original: 1995) Remastered 2023: Konstantin von zur Mühlen