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- A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the “blood and honor” Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge.
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On April 23rd, a regiment made up entirely of Hitlerjugend boys was ordered to defend the Pichelsdorf Bridges by the Havel River. Five thousand boys, wearing man-sized uniforms a few sizes too large, and helmets flopping around on their heads, took positions around the bridges.
Jun 23, 2015 · Based on journalist Gregor Dorfmeister’s autobiographical novel, The Bridge follows a group of high school boys who are called to defend Germany in the last days of WWII. The boys are...
Jun 24, 2015 · He refers to Wicki as “the godfather” of New German Cinema, saying that he became something of a mentor. What is perhaps most striking about The Bridge is its depiction of the boys as being so much more committed than the adults around them because the Nazi world is the only one they’ve ever known.
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The decision to extend the attack so far behind enemy lines was famously described by Lt General Frederick ‘Boy’ Browning – top field commander of the Allied Airborne forces – as possibly “a bridge too far”. This remark was made to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the overall commander of the British-led 21stArmy Group and mastermind of Market Gar...
The first soldiers of the 1st Airborne Division to drop into the Netherlands on 17 September 1944 were the 21st Independent Parachute Company, the pathfinders who marked out the Drop Zones (DZs) and Landing Zones (LZs) and set up homing beacons. Among them were Germans and Austrians who had assumed fake British identities in order to fight the Nazi...
On 18 September, when the second lift of 1stAirborne Division troops was going DZs and LZs beyond Arnhem – leaping from their Dakota troop transports or coming to earth in gliders – they were shot at by Dutch soldiers. Those troops belonged to Landstorm Nederland, a unit of the Waffen SS composed of Nazi collaborators. Dutch SS troops even fought s...
The majority of Dutch civilians of course hated the Nazis and yearned to be free of a brutal occupation after more than four years of oppression. They greeted the arrival of British troops with great joy, but, in the subsequent battle, thousands of them were trapped in the cellars of their homes in Arnhem town and neighbouring Oosterbeek. As the Ai...
Suffering alongside the humans as the battle raged in the streets, fields, woods and gardens were animals — some of which fought back. One British soldier who threw himself into a slit trench to escape death under German bombardment found he was sharing it with a fierce little squirrel. It proceeded to attack him and had very sharp teeth. Hurling t...
The radio problems suffered by the 1stAirborne Division at Arnhem are well-known. The radios may have worked sufficiently in carefully controlled exercises on Salisbury Plain, but they did not function well in the tree-lined suburbs, woods and polder of Holland [lowland reclaimed from a body of water by building dikes and drainage canals]. However,...
Radio contact was established with higher command headquarters and even between some units, when ranges were short. As part of normal practice, both sides listened in to each other’s radio broadcasts and tried to interfere with them. They exchanged insults over the airwaves, sometimes also masquerading as each other in attempts to glean intelligenc...
Eventually, with very few weapons left to fight the panzers, the British at the Arnhem road bridge surrendered. When the 1stAirborne Division – trapped in a cauldron of fire at Oosterbeek, with its back to the river – withdrew across the Rhine, it left behind several thousand wounded and/or captured soldiers, in addition to 1,200 dead. Many of the...
Arnhem was the last time the Germans inflicted a major defeat on the Allies in the west. From then on, they lost every battle against the British, American and Canadian armies, while the Red Army steamroller shattered German armies in the east. At Arnhem, and also during the subsequent Ardennes offensive of December 1944, the Germans expended their...
A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge. — Miranda ...
Jun 25, 2015 · The action of the film, which opened in West Germany in the autumn of 1959, takes place in a small, pretty Bavarian town in the desperate last days of the Second World War, as seven very raw Volkssturm recruits attempt to defend an old stone bridge against the overwhelming force of a conquering American army.
Jul 4, 2015 · Vice versa ‘The Bridge’ is a little known German novel turned movie set at the end of World War Two and tells the true story of seven teenage boys living in Germany. They go about their everyday lives, but soon they hear that Allied tanks might be coming. Each of the boys receives a notice from the German Army whereby they have to enlist.
