00:07September 1944 in the ruins of Arnhem. The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder and death.
00:15My finger was firmly on the trigger. My enemy was directly in my sights. A small
00:22Pressure and it would all be over. But then a paramedic emerged from the smoke with a white flag.
00:30In this unexpected silence, I saw no more British soldiers through the crack in the shattered wall.
00:37I saw only one person desperately fighting for another's life.
00:43My finger let go. This war had already taken too many fathers and husbands.
00:59On that day, on the razor's edge between life and death, humanity was the absolute highest command.
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01:12Subtitles by ZDF, 2020
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