NPR by Ella Taylor

Generation War holds the line admirably in showing how totalitarianism corrupts almost everything in its path, individual responsibility included, and creates an appalling space where sadists and conformists alike can flourish and break every rule of war at will.

Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan

The films are highly entertaining and highly disturbing, in the latter case for both the right and the wrong reasons. While admirably delineating moral decay, which eats away at one character like a virus, the movies never really get at the seed of evil.

Chicago Sun-Times by Bill Stamets

Director Philipp Kadelbach crafts a war drama cued to the ethics of the characters.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

With performers this engaging, we never want to stop watching, even as events go from grim to grimmer over four long and bitter years.

Variety by Rob Nelson

Overly melodramatic but fairly engrossing.

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

It plays like a conventional melodrama with better-than-average production values.

The Dissolve by Noel Murray

Generation War never becomes great, but it overcomes its stiff start in large part due to its scope.

Portland Oregonian by Marc Mohan

While it's an effective memoriam for the well-meaning Germans whose lives were ruined by Hitler's mad dream, the refusal of Generation War to focus on any other sort of German makes it both dramatically and historically suspect.

New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

The densely plotted Generation War sweeps past implausibilities and offers the can’t-put-it-down qualities of a superior airport novel; its last third is affecting. But a bold confrontation with the past? Not so much.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

As television drama, Generation War is unquestionably effective. As dramatized history, it is pretty questionable.

Village Voice by Michelle Orange

Generation War seeks the epic, creating multiple, lavishly realized worlds and moving with confidence between them. What it finds of both history and its individuals is less complete.

The A.V. Club by Ben Kenigsberg

By conveniently exempting its protagonists from ideology or culpability, Generation War feels less like a reckoning than a dodge: Yes, your grandparents may have been Nazis—but they could have been these nice people, too.

Slant Magazine by Steve Macfarlane

The perverse thrill of seeing less-than-popular considerations of Nazism on screen fades hurriedly to the old ache of seeing any kind of questions about Nazism answered noxiously.