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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...

results.listIds.year : 2010

results.listIds.lang : German

The Secret Files of Nazism - Mengele: The Final Account

This is a firsthand account by the Mossad agents who planned and implemented the covert "Operation Eichmann." Shot on location in Austria, Germany, Italy, Argentina, England and Israel, the film uses a mixture of documentary techniques and dramatic reenactments to retrace Eichmann's, a central figure in organizing the "Final Solution", escape route from Germany after World War II.

results.listIds.director : Dan Setton

results.listIds.year : 1996

results.listIds.duration : 91

results.listIds.lang : French

Investigative Reports - The Mystery of Josef Mengele

Documentary film that describes through testimonies, expert analysis, photographs and archival films the story of the mystery of Josef Mengele, physician and SS officer who succeeded in fleeing Europe after the World War and has never been brought to justice.

results.listIds.director : Dan Setton

results.listIds.year : 1995

results.listIds.duration : 50

results.listIds.lang : English

People's Century - Master Race (1933), Total War (1939), Brave new World (1945)

Archival series of 26 programmes looking at the past 100 years. Three chapetrs are relevant: 1933- In this series looking at momemtous events in the twentieth century through the eyes of ordinary people, this programme looks at the rise of Hitler and its consequences. 1939- Civilians recount their experiences of the Second World War. 1945- Brave New World: Charts the meeting of American and Soviet armies on the banks of the Elbe in 1945. American and Russian soldiers talk about that experience. The programme covers the period from victory in the Second World War through the rise of the Cold War to the building...

results.listIds.director : Jonathan Lewis, John Bridcut

results.listIds.year : 1995

results.listIds.duration : 107

results.listIds.lang : English

The Nazi Doctors aka Killing Jews for German Health

Robert Jay Lifton is a prominent American scientist and author, he is best known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of war and political violence and a founder member of the “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War”, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. The Jewish psychologist and psychiatrist visited 80 Auschwitz survivors and 40 Holocaust perpetrators, mainly former Nazi physicians. In the film he describes his approach and charts the way in which ordinary doctors not only Nazis change from healers to killers

results.listIds.director : Hannes Karnick, Wolfgang Richter

results.listIds.year : 2009

results.listIds.duration : 86

results.listIds.lang : English

Dr. Michael Franzblau - Nazi Hunter

results.listIds.director : Dan Noyes

results.listIds.year : 1994

results.listIds.duration : 18

results.listIds.lang : English, German

In Search of: Angel of Death, Dr. Mengele

Documentary film that describes the search of Simon Wiesenthal for the Nazi criminal Dr. Josef Mengele, physician and SS Officer, who carried out selections, medical experiments and sterilizations on Auschwitz prisoners. Includes archival photographs, interviews and photographs from Mengele's hiding places.

results.listIds.director : Abraham Lewenstein

results.listIds.year : 1979

results.listIds.duration : 23

results.listIds.lang : English

Guilt And Remembrance - Questions Put To Austrian National Socialists

Four former high-ranking Austrian Nazis, some of who were sentenced for war crimes and all of who have long since become respected members of society, talk about their enthusiasm and commitment to Hitler, their role in the Nazi system and their un-shakeable faith in Nazism. Including archive footage and photographs.

results.listIds.director : Egon Hümer

results.listIds.year : 1992

results.listIds.duration : 84

results.listIds.lang : German

Witness out of Hell

Feture Film telling the story of a camp survivor who is supposed to bear witness in a trial against a Nazi criminal. Intimidated and threatened by the accused, she cannot stand the emotional turmoil and commits suicide.

results.listIds.director : Zika Mitrovic

results.listIds.year : 1967

results.listIds.duration : 83

results.listIds.lang : German

The Debt

A feature film. In the mid-1960s, three Mossad agents went on a mission to kidnap and bring to trial in Israel a Nazi war criminal, the Birkenau Surgeon, who lives in East Berlin under the guise of a gynecologist. They locate him, drug him, hide him, and wait for the order to bring him to Israel. But he manages to escape from them and the three return to Israel not before they fabricate a story that they killed him during an escape attempt. Upon their return to Israel, they are accepted as heroes and over the years make a glorious careers based, among other things, on the wonderous story of heroism. The film...

results.listIds.director : אסף ברנשטיין

results.listIds.year : 2005

results.listIds.duration : 100

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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