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Hitler's Forgotten Victims

Oct 2, 1997

0h 58m

★ 10.0

Overview

The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps. It also explores the history of German racism and examines the treatment of Black prisoners-of-war. The film uses interviews with survivors and their families as well as archival material to document the Black German Holocaust experience.

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

History

War

Production Companies

Channel 4 Television

Afro Wisdom Films

Hitler's Forgotten Victims Trailers

Cast

Narrator (voice)

Brian Bovell

Narrator (voice) (DVD version)

James Earl Jones

Self - Interviewee

Werner Egiomue

Self (achive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self - Interviewee

Hans Hauck

Self - Interviewee

Theodor Michael

Self - Interviewee

Juliana Michael

Self - Interviewee

James Michael

Self - Interviewee

Franziska Helmuss

Self - Interviewee (as Elizabeth Morton)

Elisabeth Morton

Self - Interviewee

Betti Friedrich

Self - Interviewee

Julietta Hillerkus

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