Grade Level and Learning Objectives Charles Guggenheim, a four-
time Academy Award®-winning documentary filmmaker, narrates the
story of Berga. The documentary opens with a still photo of Mr.
Guggenheim with his army unit, Company C, 7th BN, at Camp
Wheeler, Georgia, in 1943. Mr. Guggenheim tells us: This picture
was taken over 50 years ago. World War II. My company. I'm in
there someplace. I can remember their faces, just like
yesterday. And they went overseas, and I didn't. And some of
them didn't come back. And I've been thinking about it for fifty
years. Wondering why it didn't happen to me. That's why I had to
tell this story. The documentary closes with the words of Milton
Stolon, a former Berga POW: "It's no good to remember. It's not
good. But you have to remember, because people forget what went
on. And you must remember this, you must remember this vividly."
This lesson plan considers BERGA: SOLDIERS OF ANOTHER WAR as
part of the literature of the Holocaust. The writer and
Holocaust survivor Eli Wies