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Herrenkinder
Documentary Film, DE/AT 2009, Farbe, 95 min., OmeU
Diagonale 2010

Director: Eduard Erne, Christian Schneider
Script: Christian Schneider
Cast: Werner Gusted, Hellmuth Karasek, Marva Karrer, Jakob Krovoza, Philipp Krovoza, Joachim Carlos Martini u.a.
Camera: Harald Schmuck
Editor: Joachim Wölcken
Location Sound: Robi Güver, Artur Wieloch, Paul Falz, Christian Lang
Music: Peter Kaizar
Producers: Ernst Szebedits, Elena Trifonova, Lukas Stepanik, Martin Pieper (ZDF/arte), Klaus Hipfl(ORF)
Production: Extrafilm
Co-production: neue pegasos filmproduktion (DE), ZDF/arte

 

They were to be the future elite of the Nazi state – the pupils of the National Political Institutes of Education, or Napolas (Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalten). The end of the war brought with it the end of the ideology that had been drilled into them daily. Herrenkinder brings fresh insight, as the former “cadets” (including Hellmuth Karasek) and their progeny break their silence for the first time, and return to the notorious training centres.

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