Manfred Hulverscheidt - Schlachtfelder 01 (Battlefields 01) D 1992

Video on the changing dimension of battlefields since Waterloo 1815. Directed, shot and edited by Manfred Hulverscheidt. Scientific Consulting: Ulrich Giersch and Ulrich Raulff. Interview-partners: John Keegan, Gerd Krumeich, Yves Lacoste, General Klaus Reinhardt. Total 50 mts. The changing and evolution of warfare techniques has quite often been the subject of historical consideration. But the comparison of the view that the commanders really had on the battlefield, has been described in a sensitive and detailed way by the British military historian John Keegan. The German military historian Gerd Krumeich has also given thought to the horrible effects produced by the loss of integrity of battles as a „piece" and the fact, that the instigators and commanders of war are going more and more from the front to the rear of battlefields. From Waterloo to Kuweit - the decline of war-strategies. The „virtualization" of warfare is subject of the final part of these five video-memorials., which is dedicated to the war at the Shatt-el-Arab in 1991. The killing seemed to be but was certainly not „clean". David Blair, occupied with the compiling of archive-materials of the US-army, was astonished how much of the basic footage is still x-rated. Strange illnesses and crippled offspring from Gulf-War-Participants dull the heroic self-esteem of the allied forces.- Sound: Carl Hulverscheidt Editing: Manfred Hulverscheidt and Maria Zastrow. Production: Carl-Ludwig Rettinger /WDR/Arte 1993. Total length: 50:00.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• military-history
• military-historian
• history
• Ulrich Raulff
• Ulrich Giersch
• John Keegan
• Yves Lacoste
• Gert Krumeich
• General Klaus Reinhardt
• Carl Hulverscheidt
• Manfred Hulverscheidt
• Carl-Ludwig Rettinger
• Waterloo
• Verdun
• Sommne
• Historial de Péronne
• Jean-Pierre Thierry