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".
Between 1942 and 1944 some 24,916 Jews were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. The roundups and dep...
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees ...
The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...
An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (190...
This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...
Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...
A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...
Eva Mozes Kor, who survived Josef Mengele's cruel twin experiments in the Auschwitz concentration ca...
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...
A film about friendship in difficult times, Auschwitz.
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
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For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the in...
A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eli...
In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the...
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
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As the campaign to force Jews out of Germany ramps up, the American government blocks efforts to hel...