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Albert Speer was the only Nazi in a leading position to accept responsibility for the crimes of the 3rd Reich and was convicted to a 20-year prison sentence at the Nuremberg Trials. This kindly old gentleman liked to appear in interviews and published a bestseller memoir. The 1st in a series of films entitled "Faces of the 3rd Reich", this documentary tries to answer the question whether Hitler's chief architect and minister for armaments and war production was actually feeling a true sense of guilt or only acted as if he did in order to cover his own complicity. Producer Michael Kloft managed to convince...

Director : Michael Kloft

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 49

Language : German

Fritz Bauer's Legacy

A documentary film. In 1963 General State Prosecutor Fritz Bauer (1903-1968) indicated that one should also prosecute small cogs in the machines of industrialized mass murder. The film reveals the history of why it took so long for justice to find its way into German courts and illustrates its significance for a future without mass murders and injustices.

Director : Sabine Lamby, Cornelia Partmann, Isabel Gathof

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 98

Language : English, Hebrew

32 Classified Pages - The Report from Hell

A documentary film. In April 1944, the least known great escape of WW2 took place. Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, Slovak Jews, succeeded in escaping from the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, with help of the camp underground, and overcoming difficulties and dangers they reach Žilina, Slovakia. There, before the heads of the Jewish community, they testify about the extermination of the Jews in the camp. Their written testimony becomes the "Auschwitz Protocol of Vrba and Wetzler." The protocol that reaches the Vatican, the Allies, and is even partly broadcast on BBC radio, encountered distrust,...

Director : Jan Novák

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 62

Language : Czech