What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy

Name: What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-04-19
Duration: 90 min
Cast: Philippe Sands, Niklas Frank, Horst von Wächter

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Release Date

4/19/2015

Runtime

90 mins

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Documentary

Overview

Can you imagine what it means to grow up as the child of a mass murderer? Hans Frank and Otto von Wächter were indicted as war criminals for their roles in WWII. Nazi Governors and consultants to Hitler himself, the two are collectively responsible for thousands of deaths. But what stood out to Philippe Sands were the impressions they left on their sons. While researching the Nuremberg trials, the human rights lawyer came across two men who re-focused his studies: Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter. The men hold polar opposite views on the men who raised them.

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English

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A probing moral inquiry into inherited responsibility, following two sons of Nazi war criminals who grapple with their fathers' atrocities in starkly different ways. The film resists easy answers, instead sitting with the discomfort of how we reckon with familial darkness.