Mengele's heirs
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Mengeles Erben - Human experiments in the Cold War |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dirk Pohlmann |
Mengeles Erben - Human Experiments in the Cold War is a documentary film by Dirk Pohlmann from 2010 .
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In his documentary Mengeles Erben , first broadcast on May 12, 2010 on the Arte broadcaster , Pohlmann reports on systematic medical experiments on people during the Cold War , which had hardly been researched systematically before. It documents how "some of the worst war criminals negotiated impunity with the victorious powers of World War II in return for the results of their experiments." The military and secret services in the USA were particularly interested in the "results of real human experiments with plague , anthrax and tularemia , hypothermia , negative pressure and novel bombs". None of the perpetrators was punished in the USA. In the former communist states, too, “the coming to terms with this dark past was slow”, and the crimes had been covered up.
reception
The journalist Jens Brüning comes to the conclusion in a report for Deutschlandfunk Kultur : “Dirk Pohlmann's film is not for people with weak nerves or a firmly established worldview. It is an indication of perpetrators, behind whom one can only suspect the client so far. "
In a review in the Tagesspiegel, the editor Hendrik Feindt criticizes Pohlmann's documentation for using the “Cold War rhetoric” fed from “defector propaganda” when it describes the crimes of concentration camp doctor Joseph Mengele with human experiments on both sides in the East-West. Equate conflict . The demonic lighting in interviews is also not very convincing. Mounted appearing archive recordings of medical experiments from various, not infrequently unnamed sources, served to achieve shock effects. Most of the information around which Pohlmann groups his interviews and archive clippings goes back to just one person, namely the Czechoslovak defector Jan Šejna .
Web links
- Mengele's heirs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heike E. Krüger-Brand: Menschenexperimente: TV documentary "Mengeles Erben" . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . tape 107 , no. 17 , 2010, p. A-822- ( aerzteblatt.de [PDF; accessed on June 10, 2018]).
- ↑ Jens Brüning : Deadly Experiments. The documentary "Mengeles Erben" shows the practices of doctors during the Cold War. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . May 11, 2010, accessed June 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Hendrik Feindt: The Demons , Der Tagesspiegel of May 12, 2010.