What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy Page #2

Synopsis: Three men travel together across Europe. For two of them the journey involves a confrontation with the acts of their fathers, who were both senior Nazi officers. For the third, the eminent human rights lawyer and author Philippe Sands, it means visiting the place where much of his own Jewish family was destroyed by the fathers of the two men he has come to know. It is an emotional, psychological exploration of three men wrestling with their past, the present of Europe - and conflicting versions of the truth.
Director(s): David Evans
Production: Wildgaze Films
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
Year:
2015
96 min
$26,149
49 Views


as early as that

he was a leading Austrian Nazi.

And he's gone from being

a complete outsider...

- Yeah, into the government.

- Into the government.

So he was named SS-Oberfhrer

on Kristallnacht.

- Yeah, when this... This was Kristallnacht.

- That's Kristallnacht, yeah.

Yeah, I must check it

but then when you say it...

A year later he's now been upgraded

and he's a Brigadefhrer...

That's already in Krakow here.

I recognize that, that's...

- Yeah, that's my mother.

That's your mother

sitting with Niklas' mother?

- Yeah, Brigitte Frank.

- So this must be in the Wawel.

- Yes.

- In the Wawel castle.

And you see,

she was quite a good friend to Brigitte Frank.

I was transported back 70 years

to the heart of an appalling regime

but Horst was looking at these images

with a different eye from mine.

I see a man who has

probably been responsible

for the killing of tens of thousands

of Jews and Poles.

Horst looks at the same photographs

and he sees a beloved father

playing with the children

and he's thinking that was family life.

- More skiing photos.

Yes.

And this... And now we're in Lemberg.

Now we're in Lemberg.

What is he now?

- The Governor of Galicia.

- Yes.

So they've just occupied it.

Here he is, they've just occupied it,

they are moving east,

this is Soviet propaganda

- and is that your father?

- Yes.

- There was a little photograph.

- Yeah, yeah of the... With the Jews.

Yeah.

That was a visit to Warsaw.

- A visit to Warsaw,

the eye's attention is caught by the little girl

- who is in the middle and.

- Wait, hmm,

the light is not so good here.

- So your father?

- Yeah.

- And this is Himmler.

- Yeah.

It is in '43, must be.

- His Galician SS Division.

- Yeah.

That was his biggest effort there

and because it built up this division

with the help of the Ukrainians.

And that's... That's not you?

That is me, yes, that's me.

You went to stay

in the Franks' summer house?

- I must be sitting behind there.

- You're sitting there. That's you over there.

Yeah, it must be.

I think that's Niklas...

- Yes, it could be.

...in the Schoberhof.

The very first picture I have in mind

I was being washed by my nurse.

It was my first memory

it was here in Schoberhof.

Our rooms were on the back side,

it's now torn down.

The building, it became more and more a ruin

but now it really turned me apart

when I saw they are rebuilding it

in a new way,

that really hurts.

Because?

- Because it's my home.

We always had our holidays here,

we loved the mountains around here, skiing.

My beloved nurse Hilda,

she was always with us.

Everything what is human with me,

came from Hilda not from my mother.

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Philippe Sands

Philippe Sands, QC (born 17 October 1960) is British and French lawyer at Matrix Chambers, and Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. A specialist in international law, he appears as counsel and advocate before many international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of Sea, the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court.Sands serves on the panel of arbitrators at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).He is the author of sixteen books on international law, including Lawless World (2005) and Torture Team (2008). His book East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (2016) has been awarded numerous prizes, including the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. On 5 February 2018 Sands was appointed President of English PEN. more…

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