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פסיכיאטריה תחת שלטון הנאצי - זיכרון ואחריות

On 26 November 2010 the German Association for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGPPN) held a commemorative event to honour the memory of those who suffered through one of the darkest chapters in the history of the discipline. Under National Socialism, psychiatric patients were the victims of unethical research, forced sterilisation and murder, and many psychiatrists were forced to emigrate. During the commemorative event, the DGPPN asked victims and their families for forgiveness for the pain and injustice they endured in the name of German psychiatry and at the hands of German psychiatrists. The enclosed DVD...

Production Year : 2010

Language : German

Bad Luck

A dramatic feature film. Accurate translation: "Squinty Luck". Sounds good, but the story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. A simple and unfortunate man who cannot not act but innocently although it is clear that he is going from bad to worse. It is a story of the hardships of a long journey of an unlucky person in Poland in the years 1930 to 1950. The man is trying to cope with a changing world in which he cannot find his place. He loses his love because he refuses to be involved in fascist...

Director : Andrzej Munk

Production Year : 1960

Duration : 110

Language : Polish