10/10
worth the watch for the narration alone
9 April 2021
First up - it does have excellent archive footage of what Germany looked like in the 1930s. I know Rheydt and know that scenese of how that place looked then, many places in Germany have hardly ever changed. So...from that point of view it is interestesting to anyone who is not German who has lived there. Onto the documentary itself: the exerts from the diary are read with skill but maybe a tonge in cheek style as Kenneth Branagh really goes to work on it and at times it does come across as humour not fact. But anyway as a documentary as one of it's kind, you should really take in the archive footage of Germany as the producers go to good lenghts on it. As recommended viewing for WWII historians? Maybe not but anyone who understands Kenneth Branagh's skill will enjoy it immensely.
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