In naam van de Führer
6.2
This film deals with the fate of children during the Second World War. The Nazis divided children into two categories: “the good ones,” the Aryan children, and “the bad ones,” the others. In the name of ultranationalism, Nazism, the theory of the Übermensch, and racism, Aryan children were mentally indoctrinated, while the others were imprisoned in camps and physically destroyed. These “others” were mainly children from non-Aryan and supposedly impure races: Jews, Poles, Russians, Yugoslavs, and Roma. For this film, Lydia Chagoll conducted research in World War II documentation centers, museums, and concentration camp archives in several countries, collecting texts, documents, and photographs. The film consists of a montage of photos and footage filmed by the Nazis themselves, accompanied by voice-over commentary based entirely on quotations from Nazi publications, laws, decrees, directives, newspapers, schoolbooks, reports, and political texts.
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Lydia Chagoll Director · Frans Buyens Writer Arsène Souffriau Composer
First release May 11, 1978 · Produced in Belgium · Production Ministerie van Nederlandse Kultuur
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Ministerie van Nederlandse Kultuur
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Belgium
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Original language
Dutch
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Dutch
Release dates
Belgium · May 11, 1978
Limited theatrical
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