Hitler's Children (2011)

Directed by

Chanoch Ze'evi

Genre

documentary film

Country

Israel, Germany

Runtime

59 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Descendants of top Nazi officials talk about living with the legacy of their family names and the Holocaust. They describe mixed feelings of guilt and responsibility in their everyday lives.

somberintrospectiveheavycontemplativesoberingpersonalreflectivequietly intense

What happens

Hitler's Children is an Israeli-German 2011 documentary film directed by Chanoch Zeevi that portrays how relatives of Adolf Hitler's inner circle deal with the burden of that relationship and the identification of their surnames with the Holocaust. They describe the conflicted feelings of guilt and responsibility they carry with them in their daily lives and the disparate reactions of their siblings and other family members. The film features Katrin Himmler, Rainer Höss, and Niklas Frank. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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