15 (1954 film)

0815 is a 1954 West German film directed by Paul May and based on the novel 0815 by Hans Hellmut Kirst who also served as the films screenwriter. The term 0815 nilleightfifteen, German NullAchtFnfzehn refers to the German Armys standard machine gun, the 0815 or MG 08 model 15, by far, the most common German machine gun deployed in World War I. It was manufactured in such large quantities that it became the German Army slang for anything that was standard issue. 0815 is also the first part of the 0815 film trilogy, hence it is also named TeilIn der Kaserne PartIn the Barracks.

After that Asch is promoted to Unteroffizier, as the Major has already granted it before the reports began, and Kowalski is promoted to Obergefreiter. Only minutes later the battalion is falling in on the courtyard to hear the radio message of Hitler declaring the start of war against Poland and so the start of World War II.

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