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Research and Crime: the Reich University of Strasbourg

Research and Crime: the Reich University of Strasbourg

Jun 05, 2018 54m
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Synopsis

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?

Title Research and Crime: the Reich University of Strasbourg
Companies Filmbüro Süd, SWR, ARTE
Countries Germany
Keywords german occupation, university, dean, third reich (iii reich 1933-45), woman director, nazism, strasbourg, medical experiment