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My Nazi Legacy <\/i><\/b>explores the relationship between two men, each the sons of high-ranking Nazi officials, and internationally renowned British human rights lawyer Philippe Sands, whose family perished in the Holocaust. Sands met Niklas Frank and Horst van W\u00e4chter while researching his book East West Street<\/a><\/em>, and as the three travel together on an emotional journey through Europe and the past, the film explores how each of them cope with their own devastating family history.<\/span><\/p>\n

Niklas Frank has no qualms about denouncing his father, Hans Frank, who was convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg and executed in 1945. After a stint as Hitler’s personal lawyer, Hans Frank became Nazi Germany’s chief jurist in occupied Poland, and was directly responsible for the mass murder of Jews and Poles. In the film, Niklas shares old photos and never-before-seen home movies, and visits Poland\u2019s Wawel Castle, where a da Vinci painting stolen by his father still hangs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Horst von W\u00e4chter, however, is less clear about the extent of his father\u2019s guilt; despite evidence to the contrary, he stubbornly insists his father was a decent man caught up in an intolerable situation. An Austrian lawyer, Otto von W\u00e4chter served as governor of Krak\u00f3w, Poland, and Galicia, Ukraine, during the war. In Krak\u00f3w his name was on decrees ordering the expulsion of 68,000 Jews and the sequestration of the city’s remaining Jews into the newly created (and infamous) Krak\u00f3w Ghetto. But unlike Hans Frank, von W\u00e4chter was never charged with his crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Philippe Sands\u2019 family were Ukrainian Jews, many of whom were killed as a direct result of Hans Frank and Otto von W\u00e4chter\u2019s actions, and, to Sands, the guilt of the fathers of both men is undeniable.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the last remaining generation to grow up during the atrocities of the Nazi era passes away, the probing documentary <\/span>My Nazi Legacy<\/span><\/i> offers an unforgettable look into the hearts of men who have lived their lives in the shadow of inherited guilt, denial, and shame.<\/span><\/p>\n

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