What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy

What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy

90 mins | Documentary | April 19, 2015

Can you imagine what it means to grow up as the child of a mass murderer? Hans Frank and Otto von Wächter were indicted as war criminals for their roles in WWII. Nazi Governors and consultants to Hitler himself, the two are collectively responsible for thousands of deaths. But what stood out to Philippe Sands were the impressions they left on their sons. While researching the Nuremberg trials, the human rights lawyer came across two men who re-focused his studies: Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter. The men hold polar opposite views on the men who raised them.

What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy

90 mins | Documentary | April 19, 2015

What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
Can you imagine what it means to grow up as the child of a mass murderer? Hans Frank and Otto von Wächter were indicted as war criminals for their roles in WWII. Nazi Governors and consultants to Hitler himself, the two are collectively responsible for thousands of deaths. But what stood out to Philippe Sands were the impressions they left on their sons. While researching the Nuremberg trials, the human rights lawyer came across two men who re-focused his studies: Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter. The men hold polar opposite views on the men who raised them.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Wildgaze Films
Original title What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
Directors David Evans
Writers Philippe Sands

Cast

Niklas Frank

as Himself

Philippe Sands

as Himself

Horst von Wächter

as Himself