Hitler's Forgotten Victims

  • Hitler's Forgotten Victims
Genre : Historical
Type : Documentary
Original title : Black Survivors of the Holocaust [USA Title]
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1997
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 59 (in minutes)

Documentary film about the experiences of black Germans in Nazi Germany.
The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps. Includes archive film and interviews with survivors and their relatives.

The film uses interviews with survivors and their families as well as archival material to document the Black German Holocaust experience; it also explores the history of German racism, suggests links between German colonialism and Nazi policy, and examines the treatment of Black prisoners-of-war.
Delroy Constantine-Simms, University of Essex, 12 June 1999

directed by David Okuefuna and produced by Moise Shewa (Afro-Wisdom Productions)

an Afro Wisdom Films production for Channel 4 and International Family Entertainment.
Camera: Tim Knight...
Music: Ken Bolam.
Narrator: James Earl Jones.


DVD: SpiritWorld Entertaiment [United Kingdom].
1 videodisc (59 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:English and German with English subtitles. Note:Originally produced as a television program in 1997. Production
Format:Recorded DVD (NTSC)

Screened on Channel Four (England), October 2, 1997.

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DE

Die Dokumentation zeigt die wenig beachtete Geschichte von 20.000 Schwarzen und Menschen of Colour, die zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland lebten.

Mit bisher ungesehenen europäischen und amerikanischen Filmaufnahmen erzählt der Film die brutale Geschichte von Sterilisation, medizinischen Experimenten, Folter und Vernichtung in den Konzentrationslagern.

Das Schicksal Schwarzer Opfer während des Holocausts wurde von den folgenden Regierungen Deutschlands nicht anerkannt und Ansprüche auf Wiedergutmachung seitens der Verwandten wurden abgelehnt. Dieser Film bietet den verbliebenen Überlebenden endlich die Möglichkeit, ihre Geschichte zu erzählen.

Regie: David Okuefuna

GB | 1997 | OF/Engl | 60 min

Source:
www.werkstatt-der-kulturen.de/de/spielplan/?datum=2013-10-01&mode=spielplan&detail=847&filter=Komplett

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