History's worst group project where everyone backstabbed each other while millions suffered.
This portrait that goes against the grain depicts the Führer as a lazy, isolated leader, cut off from reality, incapable of governing without his "apostles". They are Hitler's essential ministers, advisers, rivals, courtiers. They hate each other, and the Führer puts them in competition, often to get the worst out of them. The portraits of Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Albert Speer but also Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, and Doctor Joseph Mengele trace the rivalries, hatreds and predations that punctuate the entire frightening epic of Nazism. This documentary is composed of a selection of archive images and testimonies from descendants and specialists of this period.
Direction
Vinçon lets archives speak—no dramatic reenactments needed.
Editing
Juxtaposing home movies with genocide logistics. Chilling.
Director
Fabien Vinçon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'apostles' framing deliberately echoes Christian iconography to highlight how Nazi leadership mimicked religious hierarchy—Hitler as messiah, ministers as disciples.
Much of the 'domestic' Hitler footage came from Eva Braun's private reels, recovered by American troops in 1945 and rarely licensed for documentary use.
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