Films by Gabriele Trost

Germany 2008
by Gabriele Trost, Martin Hübner

They were far too young for what they witnessed, too young for what they suffered and for what they had to do. No one had prepared them for nights spent in air raid shelters, days in trenches, for the terror of deportation, forced labour, evacuation, starvation and - death. They lied, stole, begged and killed. ‘Children of the War’ reconstructs the trauma of an entire generation, told exclusively from the children’s viewpoint. This four-part documentary gives a first-hand account of the horrors