Research and Crime: the Reich University of Strasbourg
MovieTitle | Forschung und Verbrechen: die Reichsuniversität Straßburg |
User score | 5 |
Release date | Jun 5, 2018 |
Genre | Documentary, TV Movie |
Director | Kirsten Esch |
Production country | Germany |
Production companies | Filmbüro Süd, SWR, ARTE |
Run time | 54 min. |
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?