In the Name of the Race and of Science, Strasbourg 1941-1944

(TV movie)
  • France Au nom de la race et de la science Strasbourg 1941-1944
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France, 2013, 55 min

Directed by:

Tancrède Ramonet

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As it pieces together never-beforeseen archival footage, the film investigates a long-forgotten crime committed by a handful of Nazi scientists. It discloses the existence and operation of a string of concentration camps filled with human guinea pigs, put at the disposal of Germany's most renowned scientists by a horrifying and mysterious organization: the Ahnenerbe, a secret foundation bent on proving its racist theories and creating a museum to teach the truth about the "inferior race" after it had been exterminated. As it pieces together never-before-seen archival footage, declassified documents, and accounts from the world's leading experts on the history of the Third Reich, Struthof plunges viewers into the horrors of Nazi concentration camps as it unravels a crime committed in the name of Science... a science in the service of evil. (official distributor synopsis)

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