Nazis buying cheap farmland? This doc follows the extremists next door you didn't know existed.
Structurally weak and sparsely populated regions of Germany, especially in the north, such as Mecklenburg Switzerland, attract a very special form of ideologically extreme right-wing colonists. Nationalist settlers. The documentary goes on exploration, analyzes their historical roots and describes their influence in today's burgeoning right-wing scene.
Direction
Undercover access to spaces rarely filmed.
Writing
Connects 1930s land ideology to present-day Telegram channels.
Director
Detlev Konnerth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mecklenburg's 'Blood and Soil' obsession predates Hitler—agrarian romanticism here is centuries deep, not a 1940s import.
Director Konnerth spent months building trust with subjects who later discovered his previous antifascist reporting—some confrontation footage was nearly lost.
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