With her slap of the Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger in 1968, Beate Klarsfeld abruptly got known worldwide. The film highlights the significance of this act and its background. Beate Klarsfeld, born in Berlin in 1939 as Beate Künzel, is primarily known to people as "the woman with the slap" and as the Nazi hunter. In 1960 she went to Paris and met her future husband Serge Klarsfeld, whose father was deported to Auschwitz and murdered there. She was confronted with the darkest part of German history, about which she had learned nothing at school. Serge gave her books to read and made her actively deal with them. Since then, she has not let go of dealing with the crimes of the Nazi era. For them, it was always about "responsibility, not guilt".
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The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tor...
In the small town of Rechnitz a terrible crime against humanity was performed during the holocaust. ...
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
When the lights dim and the stage is revealed, Meschke channels life through the strings of his pupp...
Stories of 12 gay and lesbian survivors of Nazism and the Holocaust.
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
A pig farm in Lety, South Bohemia would make an ideal monument to collaboration and indifference, sa...
The theatre 7:3 project was conducted at the Tidaholm prison 1998-1999. What started as an artistic ...
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...
Germany, 1929. Helmut Machemer and Erna Schwalbe fall madly in love and marry in 1932. Everything in...
An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (190...
Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...
About the nurses who used their professional skills to murder the handicapped, mentally ill and infi...
An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...
The incredible life of Jorge Semprún (1923-2011): son of a republican intellectual; exiled in the ea...
Between 1933 and 1945 roughly 1200 films were made in Germany, of which 300 were banned by the Allie...
September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...