The war has only been raging for a few weeks. Ernst and Karl have been transferred to the front in accordance with their wishes and are still optimistic. Margarete signs up as a volunteer in a hospital, where she is deployed as a nurse. Her mother is anything but enthusiastic about this. Theodor Chindler makes no secret of his skepticism about the war, even as a member of the Reichstag, which earns him the suspicion of numerous colleagues. The atmosphere at the Chindlers' first wartime Christmas at home is oppressive.
The war has only been raging for a few weeks. Ernst and Karl have been transferred to the front in accordance with their wishes and are still optimistic. Margarete signs up as a volunteer in a hospital, where she is deployed as a nurse. Her mother is anything but enthusiastic about this. Theodor Chindler makes no secret of his skepticism about the war, even as a member of the Reichstag, which earns him the suspicion of numerous colleagues. The atmosphere at the Chindlers' first wartime Christmas at home is oppressive.