-毫无新意,国防军角色基本就是在重复西德50年代的电影。史学家Omer Bartov在Celluloid Soldiers: Cinematic Images of the Wehrmacht一文中形容这类型国防军角色为:“这些赛璐璐英雄被剥夺了ideological动机,对园首的强烈忠诚,对帝国敌人强烈的冷酷无情,和国防军士兵普遍的残忍和虚无主义。“
· Citation: Lukas Meissel (2022) The Innocent Perpetrators: The Portrayal of ‘German Victimhood’ in Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter (Generation War) (2013), The Journal of Holocaust Research, 36:2-3, 146-163, DOI: 10.1080/25785648.2022.2071196
· Hofmann 和 Team Worx 在《我们的父辈》之前根据历史事件改编的电视电影和节目,包括一部关于德国人逃离东德的电影(Der Tunnel,2001),一部关于德累斯顿大轰炸(Dresden,2005 年),以及1945 年一家德国人逃离红军的故事(Die Flucht,英文版本为 March of the Millions,2007 年)。
· 《The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht: Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military 》by Bryce Sait
· 《Hitler’s Army:Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich》by Omer Bartov
· 《Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland》by Christopher Browning
· 《Soldaten:On Fighting,Killing,and Dying》by Sonke Neitzel, Harald Welzer, et al.
· 《Comrades: The Wehrmacht from Within》by Felix Romer
· “Reconceiving Criminality in the German Army on the Eastern Front, 1941–1942” From 《Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe》by Alex J. Kay and David Stahel
· 《Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization》by Alex J. Kay, Jeff Rutherford, et al.