Stepmother to 3 young boys whose father is away serving the Weirmacht during WW2, Leisl tries to keep their (Frank’s and Han’s and Ani’s and Jurgen’s) lives from spinning out of control. Hans is belligerent and Ani seems to be starting to go mad and Frank is torn between going awol and moving to a better posting in Berlin and Leisl is hosting 11 refugees in her husband’s family home. This is probably what life was like for many, many Germans during WW2: just getting by, surviving. No thoughts of, if even any knowledge of, the Jews’ plight at all. Very touching. Motherland
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