A Documentary film. Brunhilde Pomsel always described herself as just being a side-line figure and not at all interested in politics. Aged 105, Pomsel used to work as secretary, stenographer and typist for the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Pomsel’s life mirrors the major historical ruptures of the 20th century and German life thereafter. The film forces viewers to ask themselves what they would have done and whether they would have sacrificed any possible moral principles in order to advance their own careers.
Director : Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer, Florian Weigensamer
The documentary presents the first biography of Veit Harlan with numerous film extracts and previously unreleased film material from the private family archive. It also shows how Veit Harlan’s family - including the youngest generation - still struggles today with the dark myth of artistic immorality. Veit Harlan was Nazi Germany’s most successful film director. A hundred million spectators saw his films all over Europe, including the perfidious anti-Semitic propaganda film The Jew Suess. Equally obsessive as he was gifted, Harlan is without a doubt Nazi cinema’s most equivocal figure, together with Leni...
The Pavel Haas Quartet is a string quartet founded in 2002, since when it has a won a number of international awards. Named after the Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899–1944), who was deported from Czechoslovakia in 1941 and died in the Auschwitz concentration camp, the quartet is made up of first violinist Veronika Jarůškova, second violinist Eva Karová, violist Pavel Nikl, and cellist Peter Jarůšek.
An interview with Lawrence L. Rhee, a former US army photographer. Rhee, a German Jew who escaped his native land in the mid 1930s, settled with his family in a New Maxico village in 1936. Later he would serve as an army photographer, returning to Europe. His skills led him to Nuremberg during the War Crimes Tribunals as a Language expert and photographer. At Nuremberg he came to know Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's personal photographer and friend, whose photographs were evidence at the trials. The associations were mostly professionals, but Hoffmann, as if to severe his own long associations with Nazi...
Nazi propaganda film about the Polish Campaign and the part of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) in it. The film, which has an explicit anti-British note, including the original score of composer Norbert Schultze's hymn to the German Air Force, "Bomben auf England".