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The orphans of Dachau
The orphans of Dachau In the summer of 1945 the newsreel of the American occupation zone shows a film "The Orphans of Dachau" about the camp Kloster Indersdorf in the district of Dachau, which had been set up for surviving orphans from Nazi concentration camps. [...]
The Man Who Planted Trees
The Man Who Planted Trees A few years ago I made a documentary film for the Bayerischer Rundfunk about the Durance region in the south of France. In this film I also made reference to the Provençal writer Jean Giono and interviewed his daughter. The [...]
75 years later
75 years after (1) "Homo homini lupus; who, after all the experiences of life and history, has the courage to deny this sentence?(2) "The fate of the human species seems to me to be the question of whether and to what extent its cultural development [...]
Leonore Goldschmidt School
Film footage from the Leonore Goldschmidt School in Berlin The Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt School in Berlin was founded in 1935 as a Jewish private school in Berlin to enable Jewish children to attend school without reprisals. Jewish schoolchildren were systematically harassed in Nazi Germany since 1933 and [...]
Online Banking 1973 – History of Computers
Online Banking 1973 – History of Computers During the last half century, banking has undergone a revolution. Technology has transformed the way we obtain financial services. The film about In-touch telephone computing was released in 1973. It shows telephone banking as a new possibility for the ‘near [...]
Films by Mrs. Hitler
Films by Mrs. Hitler The films by "Frau Hitler", by Eva Braun, are among the few testimonies of the everyday life of Adolf Hitler and the powerful of the Third Reich. The films were shot in the years after 1936. They mainly show scenes on the terrace [...]