2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

In this documentary, German director Malte Ludin examines the impact of Nazism in his family through his father’s, Hanns Ludin, personal story. Ludon the father was the 3rd reich ambassador to Slovakia and as such, he signed deportation orders that sent thousands of Jews to Auschwitz. In 1947 he was executed for war crimes. Malte Ludin, the director, did not undertake this film until after the death of his mother, Erla. The documentary does include clips of earlier interviews he conducted with her. Malte's sister Barbel is shown defending her father and insisting that he couldn't have known the full truth about Auschwitz, that he tried to resist or subvert the Nazi's most inhumane policies, and that the victims of Auschwitz should be thought of as casualties of war. Malte also includes damning testimony from a member of the Jewish family in Slovakia whose house was expropriated by the Ludins in the early 1940s.