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My Father was a Nazi Commandant

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16/08/2011

BBC Four - My Father was a Nazi Commandant

Film telling the story of a woman grappling with the legacy left by her Nazi father.

Film telling the story of a woman grappling with the legacy left by her Nazi father, Amon Goeth, who was responsible for the deaths of thousands at Plaszow concentration camp.

The Emmy Award-winning story of a young woman grappling with the terrible legacy left by her Nazi father. Amon Goeth was a prominent Nazi leader and commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp. Utterly ruthless and sadistic, he murdered thousands of Jews and others during WWII. After seeing Ralph Fiennes's portrayal of him in Schindler's List, Goeth's daughter Monika began a quest to come to terms with his evil legacy. Together with Helen Jonas, a survivor of the Holocaust and Goeth's slave, the two women unearth the personal cost of crimes that consumed millions and question whether a parent's actions can ever be truly laid to rest.

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