Hitler's Children

documentary

An original notion: Israeli filmmakers dredge up the holocaust yet again...here by featuring the children and grandchildren of the top monsters of Nazidom. These included Himmler, Goering, Hoess, Hans Frank. The unique slant cast a certain complexity to the over-familiar story which gave it a resonance lacking in so many of the others. The reverberations of evil spread more widely than we normally think.

That complexity was undercut with scenes at Auschwitz with Israeli schoolchildren weeping in a patent attempt to sway the audience's perceptions. The story of WW2 is getting old...it ended over 65 years ago...but there exists a minor industry churning out these 'remembrances' - several a year - ensuring the centrality of Jewish suffering in the world's eye in spite of the fact that far more Russians were killed by the Nazis.

This film was extremely well produced but ultimately couldn't escape the taint of propaganda.

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