1964: Stefan Westmann: How it felt to kill a man | The Great War Interviews | BBC Archive

Stefan Westmann, who served as a Corporal with the German 29th Infantry Division, remembers - with harrowing candour - how he killed a French Corporal while fighting for ground on the Western Front. The experience led Stefan to wonder how war can turn civilised men like him into killers. This is an extraordinary account of the life of a soldier in The Great War. This clip is an extended cut of an interview originally recorded for the 1964 documentary, The Great War. You have now entered the BBC Archive, an audiovisual time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV. Let us educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults. Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive -