The search for Hitler's people
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| Original title | The search for Hitler's people |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 2 × 45 minutes |
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| Director |
Peter Hartl , Christian Frey |
| script | Peter Hartl, Christian Frey |
| production |
Frauke Wolf , Carola Ulrich |
| music | Georg Reichelt , Tonvision Sergios Roth |
| camera |
Anthony R. Miller , Christian Baumann |
| cut |
Marc Nordbruch , Christoph Schuhmacher |
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The Search for Hitler's People is a German television film ( docudrama ) from 2015 , which was broadcast in two parts by ZDF in the same year .
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The docu-drama The Search for Hitler's People tells how Saul Kussiel Padover came to Germany at the end of 1944 as captain of the Psychological Warfare Division of the US Army - in the areas that had just been conquered by the US Army were. He was commissioned to fathom the mentality of "Hitler's people". To this end, he conducted in-depth interviews with people from all walks of life. In the film, these conversations, which he then recorded, are shown in game scenes.
The writer and documentary filmmaker Georg Stefan Troller , who, like Padover, came from Vienna and himself carried out surveys as a US soldier in Germany, describes his memories, which in some respects resemble the experiences of Padover.
The historians Norbert Frei , Ian Kershaw , Tim Schanetzky , Richard J. Evans , Norbert Freitag, Götz Aly , Sönke Neitzel , Christopher Browning , Sybille Steinbacher and the social psychologist Stephan Marks explain and comment on the events of that time. Scientific advice was provided by Dietmar Süß and Sönke Neitzel.
Contemporary films from German and American sources, some in color and not yet published, were used for the television film.
Reviews
- Focus , Gregor Dolak: Shiny two-part documentary.
- Frankfurter Neue Presse , Rebecca Röhrich: If you think you know everything about the time of National Socialism, the ZDF documentary series teaches you better. The staged conversations with Germans after 1945 are of feature film quality.
- Kurier : Based on the latest research results, the film puts numerous traditional assessments to the test and provides answers to questions that are still moving: What did the Germans know.
- Berliner Zeitung , Torsten Wahl: Padover called the conversations with Germans of all walks of life a treasure trove - today his notes are a treasure trove for science. The ZDF project provides new approaches to "Hitler's people", beyond the stubborn chronology or the biographies of the upper Nazis.
Web links
- ZDFzeit: The search for Hitler's people - Germany trip '45. in the press portal of ZDF