Cassandra Truth: We can do a Drinking Game for all the times that Viktor tells his father that German Jews are going to have a hard time and his daddy blindly ignores him.
The disillusionment leads to Wilhelm deserting the Wehrmacht twice, which may have saved his life. Break Them by Talking: Friedhelm tells Wilhelm what he's known all along: that the war is pointless.Not to mention how the things she's done for the sake of her ambition take a toll on her. Break the Haughty: Greta had always been impetuous, but even her status as a Glamorous Wartime Singer doesn't save her from imprisonment and death for treason.Break the Cutie: Especially Charlotte and Friedhelm.Break His Heart to Save Him: Greta begins an affair with Dorn in order to obtain false papers from him to help Viktor escape from Germany.
Attempted Rape: Charlotte is assaulted and almost raped by a Russian soldier, but is rescued by Lilija.Anguished Declaration of Love: Charlotte to Wilhelm, after she discovers he's alive.On the other hand, he also admires Friedhelm's wit and intelligence. Aloof Big Brother: Wilhelm, who has previous experience from the invasions of Poland and France, and who has attained the rank of Lieutenant, considers his bookish brother, a new recruit, to be too soft for the work of a soldier, and confesses to feeling ashamed of him on occasion.Even so, they commit various morally questionable acts and outright war crimes over the course of the series: Charly turns in a Jewish nurse to what she knows will be certain death (though the woman survives), Friedhelm executes numerous unarmed people, including a little boy, and even the otherwise noble Wilhelm executes a prisoner and orders Soviet civilians marched through a minefield.