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There is a movie called Generation War that depicts the journey of 5 friends throughout WW2 from the German perspective, it popped up in my Netflix suggestions while I was visiting Europe last year and gave it a chance.

As a person who was taught in school about the war from the perspective of a western 'victor country', this movie totally changed my overall outlook on what the common German civilian had to go through. That just like those Soviet and Allied soldiers/nurses/pilots you see in war footage, the same footage you see of German army personnel is mostly the same context. They were not all ideologically aligned, they didn't all want to participate but they are there doing their job because their country was at war and they were pressed into service, sometimes by force.

The basic Wehrmacht conscript was just a young adult, like their Soviet, American, Commonwealth or Axis counterpart. He did what he had to do based on direction of the government. My coworker's father was an 18 year old Wehrmacht soldier in WW2, as I was told he didn't want to go to war to fight but even he was picked up by the conscript office in his small Prussian town, put into military service and subsequently sent to the Eastern Front.

Hi Bernie & Mindy!

Was your music career mostly teaching or were there any big productions you were part of?