2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)

• destruction of a civilization
• daughter
• death penalty
• nazi
• sense of guilt
• parent child relationship
• loss of loved one
• suppressed past
• fascism
• ss (nazi schutzstaffel)
• holocaust (shoah)
• deportation
• jew persecution
• auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp
• national socialism
• czechoslovakia
• bratislava, slovakia
• south africa
• fascist
• sturmabteilung
• antisemitism
• family
• family feud
• post war
• father figure
• nsdap (nazi party)