There is now an "Original Uncut" 2-DVD release of this excellent movie.
It includes the entire mini-series aired on German TV in 1981.
I will have to buy it, and enjoy it in the original "Deutsch Sprechen" (with English captions, of course)!
BTW, my grandfather was a medic in the German Army in World War II, and thankfully he got out of Heilbronn before it was almost completely destroyed!
My family lives there, and it's a great German city!
Auf Wiedersehen fur jetzt!