Your grandpa ran a Nazi university. What do you ask him?
Strasbourg was home to one of three Reich Universities founded by the Nazis, known as a project close to Hitler's heart. The university, founded in 1941, is infamous for the human experiments performed on KZ prisoners by the professors of the medical faculty. What did its dean, Johannes Stein, grandfather of documentarian Kirsten Esch, know of these crimes?
Direction
Esch films her own excavation with painful restraint.
Editing
Juxtaposes archival grandeur with testimonies of survivors.
Director
Kirsten Esch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Reich University was designed as a showpiece of Nazi academic 'renewal,' with Hitler personally selecting Strasbourg for its symbolic value as a reclaimed German city. Its medical faculty included notorious figures like August Hirt, who collected Jewish skeletons for 'racial science.'
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