“Us and them
And after all, we’re only ordinary men
Me and you
God only knows, it’s not what we would choose to do…”
~ Pink Floyd.
October 1942.
Hunkered down in the rubble of Stalingrad, Kurt and Sgt. Otto have become a panzer unit in name only with all vehicles either disabled or destroyed. Given orders to take a nearby factory, Kurt leads his men over the open terrain and is shot and killed by a sniper. On his back and bleeding out in the snow, he thinks about Elisabeth and the baby girl he’ll never get a chance to see.
Elisabeth receives news of Kurt’s death at the hospital and leaves her shift early. While grieving with her grandmother Adele, a disillusioned Gertrud visits for the first time to mend the rift between her and Elisabeth but their meeting is cut short as air raid sirens sound over their neighborhood.
Safely sequestered in a bomb shelter as the thud of exploding bombs shakes the rafters, Gertrud holds her granddaughter for the first time.
