A collection of videos of War veterans for students to understand the human perspective of war. At High school our students study the War Poets as part of English Literature. It was my hope that the videos would help the students understand the 'human aspect' of the literature study. Videos are from Youtube.

1. War
The other Narratives

2. Watch this video...

3. Reflect

4. Stefan Westmann
The Great War Interviews
Stefan Westmann was a Corporal with the German 29th Infantry Division while
fighting for ground on the Western Front. His description of killing a French
Corporal is honest and harrowing, as Stefan wonders how war turns civilised
men into killers.
While on an offensive near La Bassée, he witnessed something quite the
opposite - British soldiers risking their lives to raise a Red Cross flag and bring
the German side their dead.

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6. Reflect

7. Henry Williamson
Henry Williamson served throughout the First World War, an experience
from which he never recovered. On various levels he was in a state of
breakdown for the rest of his life. The war became the fulcrum of his life’s
see-saw. It dominated everything.
Henry Williamson could never enjoy Christmas – rather, Christmas was a
torment for him because every year he relived the 1914 Christmas Truce,
when he spoke to German soldiers and discovered that their hopes and
fears were the same as those of himself and his English comrades, and
that German soldiers dying in agony cried out for their mothers just as did
the English Tommy.

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9. Reflect

10. WWII

12. Italian-
Americans
were placed
under
suspicion
when the
United States
entered
World War II

13. Frank (Italo-American)
WWII veteran Frank talks
about how he and five of
his brothers all served
simultaneously in the war,
all in different areas of the
world.

15. ARNIE FORRESTER (Australian WWII veteran)
War veteran Arnie
Forrester served on the
Kokoda Track in 1942 as
part of the 39th Battalion.

17. Reflect

18. Afghanistan

21. Reflect

22. Collated for High School
Prepared by Nives Torresi