Research and Crime: the Reich University of Strasbourg

Forschung und Verbrechen: die Reichsuniversität Straßburg

Overview

Strasbourg was home to one of three Reich Universities founded by the Nazis, known as a project close to Hitler's heart. The university, founded in 1941, is infamous for the human experiments performed on KZ prisoners by the professors of the medical faculty. What did its dean, Johannes Stein, grandfather of documentarian Kirsten Esch, know of these crimes?

Production

Filmbüro Süd, SWR, ARTE