I couldn’t wait.” Werk later expressed deep and sincere regret about his wartime actions.Īn unnamed woman added: “We didn’t support the party. “I joined the Jungvolk at the age of 10 and received this. “This is my Hitler Youth membership card,” said Hans Werk, who eventually became part of the Waffen-SS. After that, they advanced to Hitler Youth or the female equivalent, the League of German Girls.Ī few recalled being excited to attend the camp as children. The interviewees mostly began their participation with the Nazis when they joined the Jungvolk, a mandatory program for boys between the ages of 10 and 14. Klaus Kleinau is one of the surviving remorseful members of the Waffen-SS. And that’s why so many said: ‘I wasn’t a Nazi.’ ” “Everybody tries to distance themselves from the massacres committed under Naziism, especially those of the final years. Kleinau believes this to be a widespread delusion. “The majority of those under Naziism said after the war, again and again, firstly ‘I didn’t know,’ secondly ‘I didn’t take part,’ and thirdly, ‘If I had known, I would have acted differently,’ ” Klaus Kleinau, a remorseful member of the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the SS, said in the doc. Courtesy of Focus Featuresįor many of them, “nothing” is the operative word today.
From age 10, German children became part of either Jungvolk, and eventually Hitler Youth, or the League of German Girls. And Holland himself died in June shortly after completing his movie.ĭeemed functionaries rather than war criminals by the German government, these former medics, SS officers and concentration camp guards were able to return to their communities after World War II as if nothing had happened. It took him 10 years to track his elderly subjects down and capture them on film.
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