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- Summaryin English language; Recordings in front of the house, also with Beevor; Beevor goes into the house; Beevor about the connection Stalingrad-Berlin; Stalingrad as a turning point; differences between Germans and Englishmen when they write about Berlin; about the work in Soviet archives; final battle for Berlin; why the Allied stopped and only the Red Army fought; Operation Borodino; Reichstag; why the Germans fought to the end; on the relationship between Zhukov-Stalin; contemporary witness Grossman; contemporary witness Die anonyma Frau - Diary; on rape; criticism from Russia; bomb war; development stages of the bomb war; concept of the Total War; on the myth of the snipers of Stalingrad; on fascism and Stalinism; on parents and childhood; why he became an officer, what he learned for his career as a writer; the novelist Beevor; first non-fiction book: The Spanish Civil War; his own way of working and his teacher John Keegan (The Face of Battle); his time as an officer in Germany; about John Keegan; about Gitta Sereny and other important British writers; what the 2nd World War was all about. The new wars of the nineties; war and terror; about the possible war in Iraq; dangers for the united Europe; its (?) history; the history of the world war; why the Second World War is so fascinating; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war; the history of the world war.) Plans; about Arthur Koestler; about Eric Hobsbawm; photographs from the living room; Beevor reads the last section from Berlin 1945 Das Ende (German); about six generations of writers in the Beevor family; Beevor shows Stalingrad, Moscow, Berlin on a map; Beevor gets his book off the shelf; Beevor at his computer; his bookcases with war literature and antiques; Diagrams: close-ups of face and hands; details of the study, especially pictures
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- TagsGreat Britain; Writer; 2nd World War; Bomb War; Stalingrad; Berlin; Fascism; Stalinism; Childhood and Youth; British Literature; Iraq War; Europe; Berlin
- Decade2000
- Production Year2003
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- Actors
- PersonalitiesAntony Beevor
- DirectorAchim Engelberg
- Producer
- CameraAmir Fathi
- Original Clip IdentifierQ6UJ9A00AEUC