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This documentary presents the biography of Konrad Adenauer, the First Chancellor of West Germany (1949-1963). Before the war, Adenauer was a member of the Central Party and between 1917 and 1933 he served as mayor of Cologne. As a Catholic, he opposed the Nazis and in March 1933, was removed from his post and even arrested on two occasions. In his role as Chancellor, Adenauer finalized reparation payments with Israel. He liaised with Moscow regarding the release of prisoners of war and initiated reconciliation with France. The period when he served is characterized as one of prosperity and cultural and...

Production Year : 1963

Duration : 25

Language : English

Reckonings

A documentary movie. The story of the "Claim Conference". Holocaust Survivors were in urgent need of help, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction of a people and atrocities suffered by millions? This film explores this story set in the aftermath of the Holocaust and leading to the groundbreaking Luxembourg Agreements of 1952.

Director : Roberta Grossman

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 84

Language : English, German

You Won't Get Me!

A documentary movie. A historical road movie of Manfred Weil. He tells about Oyssey during the time of shoah. Weil used tricks outmaneuver all the Nazi bureaucracy and their collaborators in order to flee concentration camps and to survive. After the war, Weil became a wonderful artist who most of the time focused with his paintings on beautiful subjects - above all women. Manfred Weil survived every kind of distress until he died of a natural death aged nearly 95. The film was shown at stranger than fiction 2016, Germany. .

Director : Werner Muller

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 119

Language : German