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Documentary film that deals with the place of the medical system in Nazi Germany in the extermination apparatus. Filmed in Germany, Austria, Poland, and Russia, the film includes archival photographs, expert commentary, interviews with survivors of euthanasia operations and present-day photographs of locations where the events took place.

Director : Nitsan Aviram

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 90

Language : English, German

Science and the Swastika - The Wrong Stuff

During the Second World War, the Nazi Government invested in medical research of issues pertaining to flying. New planes were developed which were able to fly faster than the speed of sound, but the high-altitude issue was problematic. Dr Sigmund Rascher, conducted high -altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau in order to find the answers to questions like: what happens to the human body at 21 km altitude? What happens when planes compressed with air explode in battle? How much time does a pilot have before he loses consciousness? When should he open the parachute? Most of the experiments were...

Director : Fisher Dilke

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 50 52

Language : English

Grand Concert of the Peoples or Chain - Stockes' Breath

Documentary film containing interviews with 29 witnesses on the subject of getting rid of the members of the Jewish anti-Fascist committee and getting rid the doctor's trials.

Director : Semyon Aranovich

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 138

Language : Russian