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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.

Director : Dan Setton

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 50

Language : English

Council of the Gods

Based on actual events, this DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, the state film monopoly in the East Germany throughout that country's history) drama tells the story of I.G. Farben, a colossal German industrial corporation that helped supply Hitler’s war effort and manufactured the gas used in the Nazi death chambers. Using Nuremberg Trial records, Council of the Gods deals with the complicity of big business on both sides of the conflict and of scientists whose research contributed to the deaths of millions.

Director : Kurt Maetzig

Production Year : 1950

Duration : 105

Language : German

The Nazi Plan to Bomb New York

לקראת סוף מלה"ע ה- 2, גרמניה שוועה לדחיית תבוסתה הבלתי נמנעת, או לפחות למצוא דרך לנקמה כלשהי על התמוטטות הרייך ה- 3. הפקת ערוץההיסטוריה, "התוכנית הנאצית להפציץ את ניו-יורק", חושפת את אחד המאמצים המצמררים שנעשו אותו זמן. היסטוריון התעופה דיויד מיירה אשר חקר את יוזמות התעופה של גרמניה הנאצית במשך כ- 20 שנה, גילה לאחרונה מסמכים המוכיחים שהנאצים תיכננו להטיל פצצה רדיואקטיבית על ניו-יורק ב- 1944. שלושה מהנדסי תעופה, כולל ורנר פון בראון, הועסקו בתכנון מטוס שיוכל לבצע את המשימה. לראשונה מזה 50 שנה, ניתן לראות בסרט זה את המעבדות שבהן תוכנן ונוסה "מפציץ אמריקה".

Director : John Biffar

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 50

Language : English

גזע האדונים

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 20

Language : English

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

Science and the Swastika - Hitler's Biological Soldiers

Episode in the documentary series dealing with medicine and science in Nazi Germany. This episode deals with enhancing racial purity. Within the Nazi regime, the doctors comprised the largest group of officers. Their mission was to enhance racial purity. The budget increased ten-fold. From March 1933 Jewish doctors were evicted from their posts. Every doctor who worked in a public institution had to be a member of the Nazi party.

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 50 52

Language : English

Science and the Swastika - The Good German

In 1933, with the rise of the Nazi Party to power, Germany began a period of isolation in the field of science. Many Jewish physicists and scientists left Germany. Students and lecturers had to undergo military training and as a result, their studies and research dealt more in the field of the military. At the time, Heisenberg, a German Nobel Prize winning physicist, taught physics at the university. He used to refer to Einstein and this aroused suspicion. In 1937 he was accused of teaching Jewish physics (as opposed to Aryan physics) and also homosexuality. After a lengthy and humiliating investigation,...

Director : Saskia Baron

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 50 52

Language : English

In The Shadow of the Reich - Nazi Medicine

Documentary film that deals with science and medicine in the Third Reich and describes activity of sterilization, racial improvement, euthanasia and the medical experiments in the concentration camps. Includes photographs, archival films, and interviews with experts who have published research on the topic.

Director : John J. Michalczyk

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 54

Language : English