Berga: Soldiers of Another War

Berga: Soldiers of Another War

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 28, 2003

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

War, Documentary

Original Title

Berga: Soldiers of Another War

Director

Charles Guggenheim

Description

During the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944, thousands of American GIs were captured by German forces. Berga: Soldiers of Another War, the final work in the distinguished career of four-time Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Charles Guggenheim, is the untold story of 350 American POWs caught in the tragedy of the Holocaust. In blatant violation of the Geneva Convention, the Jewish American soldiers in the 106th Infantry Division, together with those who had "Jewish-sounding" names or who "looked" Jewish, were shipped off to the slave-labor camp at Berga am Elster, a satellite camp of the infamous Buchenwald.