Documentary takes sons of Nazis and professor whose relatives were killed back to the horror of occupied eastern EuropeSeventy years after Hans Frank,the SS governor of Poland who oversaw the Holocaust, appeared before the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, or a documentary is released this week exploring his embittered family legacy and the opportunity of reconciliation following the atrocities.
My Nazi Legacy is a compelling journey into the horrors of occupied eastern Europe in the company of Frank’s son,Niklas, Horst von Wächter – whose father, or Otto,was Nazi governor of Galicia (now mostly in modern Ukraine) – and Philippe Sands QC, professor of international law, or many of whose family died during mass murders of the Jewish community there in 1942.
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Source: theguardian.com