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A feature film.Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups. Falsely suspected as child molester, he's recruited as a soldier in the 2nd World War, but very soon he is taken prisoner of war. After shortly serving in Goerings hunting lodge, he becomes the dogsbody in Kaltenborn Castle, an elite training camp for German boys. Completely happy to take care of these children, he becomes a servant of Nazism, catching boys from the area as supplies for the camp. Based on the novel The Erl King by Michel Tournier.

Director : Volker Schlöndorff

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 117

Language : English

Nazi Guerrillas

In the months and years following the end of the World War Two, Allied forces faced a series of bombings and attacks in occupied Germany. Nazi loyalists attempted to derail the rebuilding process by killing any Germans collaborating with the enemy. And the mysterious SS-Werewolves underground organization boasted of the coming rebirth of the Party. Today, little is known about the activities of the Werewolves and other groups who opposed the Allied forces during this postwar period. Through historians’ commentaries, archival materials and testimonies, this program explores how the SS-Werewolves terrorized...

Production Year : 2003

Language : English

Gladiators Of WWII - Waffen-SS

This episode in the BBC documentary series "Gladiators of WW2" focuses on the Waffen SS, the military wing of the Nazi Party under the command of Himmler. The Waffen SS evolved from the previously established Sturmabteilung (SA). With Hitler's rise to power, in 1933, concentration camp personnel were incorporated into the SS. The Leibstandarte, (Bodyguard Regiment of Hitler) was also formed. It later became part of the Waffen SS. The Waffen SS fought alongside the German army in WW2 and during the war reached its maximum strength with 38 fighting units, commando units and over 950 thousand soldiers, most...

Director : Charles Messenger

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 48

Language : English

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