The Officer Factory

Part 1 (1x1)

Ausstrahlung: Nov 23, 1989

This is the story of a simple German lieutenant named Karl Krafft. He is one of many officers, at first glance almost an average German person. And it's a study of men who learned war as their craft. February 1944. Lieutenant Krafft, who by chance survived Stalingrad, has been transferred to War School 5 in Bavaria as a specialist in infantry tactics. Here he is immediately caught in the conflict-prone area of ​​tension between the outdated German soldier tradition and the vicious daily practice of the National Socialist system. At the war school, where the 16th war officer training course will be held until the end of March, officers with front-line experience and stage pigs face each other to train ensigns to become officers and the last bit of war fodder.