Five Minutes Away from Weimar

Weimar, city of great German authors Goethe and Schiller, was and still is considered the cultural center of Classic Germany, home to icons like composer-pianist Franz List, philosopher Nietzsche and dozens of other thinkers and intellectuals. Five minutes away from Weimar lies the Buchenwald concentration camp, where more than 60,000 people were tortured to death in the Second World War, among them thousands of Jewish, Soviet, Communist, British and French prisoners of war, along with dissidents of Hitler's regime. How was it possible that the death camp was so close to the German culture center and no one in Weimar protested nor knew about it? The film raises these queries made by Buchenwald survivors, German residents of Weimar and experts who attempt to confront the issue of the German traits of character that led to the greatest Holocaust in the history of mankind