Have there been (m)any movies telling soldier’s stories (like Private Ryan or whatever) from the German’s side?
(maybe this is a cafe question?)
There was Das Boot.
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Try Stalingrad
Also The Enemy Below, the Robert Mitchum/Curt Jurgens submarine flick. Unusually sympathetic to the German characters for a 1957 film, I would have thought.
Die Bruecke is a pretty haunting depiction of a handful of german teenagers meeting war head-on.
I suppose The Eagle Has Landed would qualify.
I remember reading that, at about the age the protagonists were. Messed me up.
Der Untergang portrayed the war’s last days from a variety of perspectives, not just Hitler’s.
If you have never seen the director cut of Das Boot, it is 3.5 hours well spent. Very very intense.
If it’s OK to go before II back to I, there’s All Quiet on the Western Front.
I heard that’s so good, but it isn’t in print. 
The Young Lions featured parallel story lines about US and German soldiers, the German being played by Marlon Brando.
The Marriage of Maria Braun , for the homefront and aftermath.
The full uncut version is over 5 hours long.
WWI also has The Blue Max
The Tin Drum covers WWII from a German POV, but on the home front.
“The McKenzie Break” is, basically, “The Great Escape” in reverse- a story of crafty German POWs escaping from a British prison camp.
A Bridge Too Far and The Longest Day both had multiple segments devoted to the German POV.
Battle of the Bulge had some classic, if somewhat fanciful, scenes on the German side, especially with Robert Shaw.