Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

PodBill Just what I expected

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Hitler's Children" is a German-Israeli co-production from 2011, so this documentary has its 5th anniversary this year. The director is Chanoch Ze'evi and the crew list here includes several other Israelis, which is not too surprising though given the context. This is a film about the probably darkest era in German history, but with a very specific context. We all know that Hitler did not have any children, but other driving forces in terms of the horrendous crimes of Nazi Germany did and we get to see several people in here who were (mostly) grand children of the guys who did so much evil between 1933 and 1945. We hear all kinds of stories, about people who could not break with what their parents did and occasionally even still support their ideology, but also about people who don't want nothing to do with their ancestors anymore. A bit of everything, and certainly also something right in-between, with people who tried to find at least something good in their (grand)fathers, but may have failed, but whose examination of their family (history) also helped them in dealing with who they are and with who their own (grand)children may be. And lets be honest. Evil is often not necessarily a consequence alone of who these people were, but also with all the outer influence that somehow had an impact on their lives. And evil is not hereditary I am sure. I thought this was an interesting subject here and the filmmakers informed us on a pretty personal topic here that has not (really) been done in films yet. The question of guilt is a very big one in here from start to finish in this fairly short documentary. It only runs for 59 minutes. I recommend everybody with an interest in German history of the 20th century to check it out. Do not miss out.

Dalbert Pringle Do the following names have a familiar sounding ring to them? Heinrich Himmler? Herman Goring? Rudolf Hoess? Hans Frank? Amon Goeth? Well, if you are at all up on your WW2 history, and, especially, if you're hip to who's who in the notorious Nazi camp, then these particular names should, of course, ring a very clear bell that comes straight from a Gestapo, concentration camp from hell.Anyways - For anyone who might be a little vague about these 5 names and the significance that they had in the scheme of things during WW2, then here's a brief run-down of their general relevance.Heinrich Himmler was second in command of the Nazi Party. His position was directly under Adolf Hitler.Rudolf Hoess was the creator and commander of the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp.Hans Frank was the Polish Governor-General who, during WW2, was directly responsible for all of the ghettos and concentration camps that existed in Poland.Hermann Goring was a high-ranking Nazi official responsible for countless WW2 atrocities.This well-produced, 60-minute documentary consists of interviews with 5 descendants of these once powerful figures who had reigned supreme in the Nazi regime. These interviewees are people who had inherited a legacy that had permanently associated them with one of the greatest crimes in all of history.And their names are as follows - Bettina Goring, great-niece of Herman Goring; Rainer Hoess, grandson of Rudolf Hoess; Katrin Himmler, great-niece of Heinrich Himmler; Niklas Frank, son of Hans Frank; and Monika Goeth, daughter of Amon Goeth.For more than 60 years these people have, in a sense, lived in the shadows, trying to rebuild their lives without being constantly reminded of what their fathers or fore-fathers once did.In Hitler's Children each of these people discusses the delicate balance that they reached between the natural admiration that a child has for his father or relative and the innate revulsion that they clearly hold towards the crimes which their ancestors committed.The viewer is told of the challenges that these people had to face in protecting their families as they passed down their family name to future generations.All-in-all - Hitler's Children was an interesting documentary that provided the viewer with even more insight into the devastating effects of a worldwide event, like WW2, which, even today, still continues to have an impact on us.

Red-125 Hitler's Children (2011) is a documentary directed by Chanoch Zeevi. The movie features in-depth interviews with the children or grandchildren of notorious Nazis. Obviously, there are millions of people in Germany--and elsewhere--whose parents or grandparents were members of the Nazi party. However, the people in the film are descended from the most notorious, vicious members of Hitler's inner circle: Goering, Hess, Himmler. All of the descendants of these Nazis appear to be gentle, humane people. The movie outlines the manner in which they have dealt with their unsolvable dilemma-- how can you love or respect a parent or grandparent who committed such monstrous acts?It's interesting that none of the people in the film made any attempt to excuse or explain the behavior of their relatives. This attitude has severed some family ties. Their parents or siblings sometimes cling to the "it's all lies" excuse. The people in the movie meet concentration camp survivors or the children of survivors. How can they cope?The Holocaust will remain a scar on human history as long as human history exists. Its psychological effects will always be with us, although perhaps they will diminish with time. For the people in the movie, the effects of the Holocaust are with them forever. It's an impossible situation. They have to deal with it in the best way they can.This film was shown at Rochester's Dryden Theatre as part of the wonderful Rochester Jewish Film Festival. It's definitely worth finding and seeing, and it will work well on DVD. It makes a good companion film to another JFF movie, "The Flat." In "The Flat," a daughter of a high-ranking Nazi maintains the fiction that her father was "just a journalist." He wasn't.

gavin6942 A look into the lives of the descendants of the top Nazi officials who worked under Hitler's command.This is a rather interesting look at the children and grandchildren of some infamous members of the Nazi party. While we cannot blame them for what their parents did any more than we can blame anyone in Germany for what the generation before them did, these folks have an unusual level of guilt and shame to bear -- can anyone ever again have the surnames Himmler or Goebbels? I do like that one person pointed out how the Nazi label has tainted Germany. While Germany has been around in various forms for centuries, we now see the country as a former Nazi country and consider German culture through the lens of Nazi culture. Why are we all so obsessed with this one decade? Is it heinous? Beyond words... but it is a relatively small part of German history. When will it be a thing of the past?