Berga: Soldiers of Another War 20 years old

"World War II. My company… I can remember their faces just like yesterday. They went overseas and I didn't, and some of them didn't come back. I've been thinking about it for 50 years, wondering why it didn't happen to me. That's why I had to tell this story."

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.

Credits

Berga: Soldiers of Another War Cast

Name Character
Charles Guggenheim He was 79, 78 years old when he died as Narrator

Berga: Soldiers of Another War Crew

Name Department
Charles Guggenheim as Director. He was 79 (78) years old when He died Directing
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Berga: Soldiers of Another War (20 years)

"World War II. My company… I can remember their faces just like yesterday. They went overseas and I didn't, and some of them didn't come back. I've been thinking about it for 50 years, wondering why it didn't happen to me. That's why I had to tell this story."

  • Release day: Wednesday, May 28, 2003
  • Runtime: 85 minutes