Kamikaze: Todesbefehl für Japans Jugend

The documentary, which won the Grimme Prize in 2001, challenges the myth that Japan's suicide squadrons at the end of the Pacific War were all volunteers. Interviews with survivors whose planes were shot down in aerial combat or who were never used again due to the war's end paint a different picture: these young pilots had no other option but to sacrifice themselves. A war crime against an entire generation.