Summary This documentary tells the story of how the Nazis stormed the fortress of law, how they gradually subjugated the judiciary and the legal system in order to assert the supremacy of the "people's community" over individual rights. This story is told through four singular destinies: Johann Reichhart, the Bavarian executioner and world record-holder for judicial executions; Lilo Gloeden, a committed woman; Werner Best, a Nazi jurist; and Hans Litten, a democratic lawyer. From 1933 to 1945, during the twelve years of the Nazi era, Hitler's courts handed down some 16,000 death sentences on their own soil. 30,000 more with the military tribunals. View more details
Directed : Marie-Pierre Camus Jean-Marie Barrère
Written : Jean-Marie Barrère Gilles Gasser
Stars : Jean-Christophe Brétignière Jean-Marie Barrère Cécile Arnaud Cédric Zimmerlin
Genres : History Documentary
Release date : Aug 3, 2023
Language : French
Production companies : Arte France Cinéma Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah Zed
Summary This documentary tells the story of how the Nazis stormed the fortress of law, how they gradually subjugated the judiciary and the legal system in order to assert the supremacy of the "people's community" over individual rights. This story is told through four singular destinies: Johann Reichhart, the Bavarian executioner and world record-holder for judicial executions; Lilo Gloeden, a committed woman; Werner Best, a Nazi jurist; and Hans Litten, a democratic lawyer. From 1933 to 1945, during the twelve years of the Nazi era, Hitler's courts handed down some 16,000 death sentences on their own soil. 30,000 more with the military tribunals. View more details
Genres : History Documentary
Release date : Aug 3, 2023
Language : French
Production companies : Arte France Cinéma Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah Zed
