My subject line says it all. As a student of WWII history, I could not believe a filmmaker would even attempt to convey a story like this (duty, honor, country) about the SS. Had the protagonists been in the German Wehrmacht then MAYBE this plot line might have had some validity and/or credibility. The SS was a completely different, highly political, notoriously vicious outfit. I couldn't believe the claptrap moral equivalence that was spewed in the end narration. It was absolutely devoid of facts and reality. The writers of this film are morally bankrupt.

What a joke of a movie. Poor production, the most apologist German thing I've ever seen. I am a student of WWII. The atrocities committed by the Germans in Russia are glossed over in the guise of one man losing his faith in ultimate victory. Its all patriotic nonsense when the principles knew they were losing, and they knew why. Highlights are American atrocities when their group is transferred to the west. A few of those certainly happened, but comical compared to German activity in the east. There's just nothing good to say about this film.

I watched this movie and yes the acting could have been better, but the gear was pretty realistic, Yeah the Tanks were cover over T55's but they tried to use the correct gear for the Germans, Russians and Americans, which is more than a lot of war movies have done. The savagery shown especially on the eastern front the Germans shooting wounded Russians did happen quite a lot, and the Soviets especially the NKVD would do the same to Germans. Less than 10,000 Germans came back from Soviet Captivity. The movie shows an individual soldier perspective and the relations to "his Kamaraden". The movie shows a soldier fighting for his friends and no longer for the cause.

The premise of this film is that Allied murder of captured SS men in the field is equivalent to the mass murder of ten million civilians by the German war machine -- civilians most of whom were not caught in the field of combat. For good measure, the dropping of the atom bombs is also brought in to heighten the equivalence -- as if millions more Japanese civilians would not have died in an invasion aimed at dislodging a murderous regime that killed thirty or forty million Chines, Koreans and others outside the theater of combat. The message is that the SS are to admired for fighting for their country, as though that is a virtue in and of itself, regardless of the circumstances and the country they were fighting for.It is astounding that this revisionist tripe was made, much less that it received theatrical release.Not to mention that the film is badly, mawkishly, tritely made, poorly shot and indifferently acted.