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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780780643017 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 0780643011 Label: Pbs Home Video Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Pbs Home Video Release Date: May 20, 2003 Running Time: 85 minutes Sales Rank: 30893 Studio: Pbs Home Video Theatrical Release Date: May 28, 2003 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Charles Guggenheim dedicated the last six months of his life finishing this film. This is a story about his fellow American infantrymen, who were captured during the Battle of the Bulge, then sent to a Nazi slave labor camp where many of them died. BERGA: SOLDIERS OF ANOTHER WAR is a documentary film about these American prisoners of war caught in the tragedy of the Holocaust. Until now, the story has remained untold, lost in the trauma of the second world war. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An important storyNot a lot of people know that there were actually a number of Americans who were caught up in the tragedy of the Shoah (obviously not nearly as many as there were native-born Europeans, but there were also more than just an isolated few). This documentary introduces us to one of those stories. In December of 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, several thousand GIs were taken prisoner by the Germans, and sent to Stalag 9B, which was presumably an ordinary POW camp. The order then came for all ... Read More Rating: - Uplifting and edifyingIf "Schindler's List" excused opportunism for the sake of survival, this documentary demonstrates self-sacrifice in the name of human decency and reclaims the terroritory lost by the human race when it left the Spielbergs of the world to tell us all how to live. The unforgettable person in this story is the man I would have liked to have met and married--the German-American commander who chose to accompany his Jewish and Italian -American troops who were forced into slave labor in a concentration ... Read More Rating:  - Shocking StoryThis is a shocking story of American soldiers sent to a concentration camp. This is a powerful documentary of a little known episode in WWII. The film, however, is not the first to document the story. It actually was inspired by revelations about Berga in Mitchell Bard's 1994 book, Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's camps. |
