After the Wall: Night

This documentary series details how Brazil was shaped by centuries of armed conflict, from its early conquerors to its modern-day violence.

Germany in 1945. A nation faces up to the ruins of its past. Hunger and adversity shape people's daily lives. What effect did the atrocities of World War ll have on attitudes towards law and morality? The two-part documentary Crime in Post-War Germany shows how strained life was between 1945 and 1949 in the four occupied zones. Using the example of individual, particularly serious criminal cases, like in Dresden where a wood collector comes across the severed legs of a person or in Hamburg, where the so-called rubble murders terrify the whole city. Criminal psychologists and forensic experts set out to search for clues and analyze the brutal crimes. Historians and witnesses describe the state of emergency of the late 1940s which ended with the founding of two German states.

This series attempts to make sense of the origins and increasingly complex present forms of global fascism and considers the actions we need to take to protect our society from this insidious ideology.

Three Soviet prisoners of war flee from a Nazi concentration camp at the end of the war. One of the guards helps them and runs with them. Many years later, this former German henchman comes to the idea of destroying all the fugitives with whom he once escaped from a concentration camp. His cruel plan he begins to put into action.