What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy (2015)
• April 19th, 2015 • 1h 30min
Documentary
Overview
Can you imagine what it means to grow up as the child of a mass murderer? Hans Frank and Otto von Wächter were indicted as war criminals for their roles in WWII. Nazi Governors and consultants to Hitler himself, the two are collectively responsible for thousands of deaths. But what stood out to Philippe Sands were the impressions they left on their sons. While researching the Nuremberg trials, the human rights lawyer came across two men who re-focused his studies: Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter. The men hold polar opposite views on the men who raised them.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Radical Evil
Released on: 2014-01-17
Documentary
Das radikal Böse is a German-Austrian documentary that attempted to explore psychological processes ...
Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations
Released on: 1938-04-21
Documentary
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty
Released on: 1938-06-02
Documentary
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
Released on: 2005-04-07
Documentary, Drama
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton
Released on: 2003-03-27
Documentary, History
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved ...
Esperanto
Released on: 2011-01-24
Documentary, History
This film, directed by Dominique GAUTIER, takes the viewer on a worldwide excursion into the history...
A Journey Into the Holocaust
Released on: 2015-01-22
Documentary
A detailed and deeply personal exploration into genocide and how something this atrocious happened, ...
Night and Fog
Released on: 1959-04-27
Documentary, History
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
Released on: 2017-01-06
Documentary, History, War
On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration ...
Łódź Ghetto
Released on: 1989-03-22
Documentary, History
The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...
Secrets of the Nazi Criminals
Released on: 1963-02-25
Documentary
Documents the major trial of the Nazi war criminals and the violent acts that they were accused of.
Mengele, the hunt for a Nazi criminal
Released on: 2017-06-18
Documentary, War, Crime
He was one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, infamous for his assassination attempts on twin...
White Terror
Released on: 2005-08-05
Documentary
A video about Neo-Nazis originating in Sweden provides the starting point of an investigation of ext...
Forget Us Not
Released on: 2013-08-07
Documentary
An in depth look at the persecution and subsequent death of the 5 million non Jewish victims of the ...
Zeitgeist
Released on: 2007-06-01
Documentary, History
A documentary examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the 9/...
Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy
Released on: 2021-02-02
History, War, Documentary, TV Movie
How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged ...
The Aryans
Released on: 2014-04-29
Documentary, Drama, Crime
THE ARYANS is Mo Asumang's personal journey into the madness of racism during which she meets German...
The Last Musician of Auschwitz
Released on: 2025-05-09
Documentary, History
Tells the extraordinary story of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch who, along with other victims of Auschwitz, ...
Simona
Released on: 2022-09-30
Documentary
Ida, the grandniece of Simona Kossak, travels to the Bialowieza Forest at the Polish-Belarussian bor...
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary
Released on: 2002-03-22
Documentary
Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who...