Research and Crime: the Reich University of Strasbourg

Jun 5, 2018

0h 54m

★ 5.0

Overview

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?

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

Production Companies

Filmbüro Süd

SWR

ARTE

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Christiane Roßbach

Narrator (voice)

Matthias Klie

Narrator (voice)

Verena Rendtorff

Narrator (voice)

Nele Haas

Self

Rainer Möhler

Self

Christian Bonah

Self

Karin Esch

Self

Ewald Grothe

Self

Raphael Toledano

Self

Frédérique Neau-Dufour

Self

Elisabeth Raiser

Self

Pélagie Simon

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