Erna, Helmut and the Nazis

  • Documentary
  • History
  • TV Movie
4/29/2021
60

Storyline

Germany, 1929. Helmut Machemer and Erna Schwalbe fall madly in love and marry in 1932. Everything indicates that a bright future awaits them; but then, in 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power and their lives are suddenly put in danger because of Erna's Jewish ancestry.

Directors:
Jutta Pinzler
Stephan Sattig
  • husband wife relationship
  • holocaust (shoah)
  • world war ii
  • jew persecution
  • family secrets
  • antisemitism
  • third reich (iii reich 1933-45)
  • racial prejudice
  • 1940s
  • war doctor
  • home movies
  • nazi germany

Cast

  • Michaela Kametz
    Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Hans Machemer
    Self
  • Thea Wilmer
    Self
  • Ludger Terliesner
    Self
  • Hermann Krumme
    Self
  • Matthias Kiel
    Additional Voice (voice)
  • Miriam Jansen
    Additional Voice (voice)
  • Uli Auer
    Additional Voice (voice)
  • Claudia Kaffanke
    Additional Voice (voice)
  • Nick Gardiner
    Additional Voice (voice)
  • Helmut Machener
    Self (archive footage)
  • Erna Schwalbe
    Self (archive footage)
  • Adolf Hitler
    Self - Politician (archive footage)
  • Hermann Göring
    Self - Politician (archive footage)

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