Research and Crime: the Reich University of Strasbourg

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?

5

54 min

Cast

Christiane Roßbach

as Narrator (voice)

Matthias Klie

as Narrator (voice)

Verena Rendtorff

as Narrator (voice)

Nele Haas

as Narrator (voice)

Rainer Möhler

as Self

Christian Bonah

as Self

Karin Esch

as Self

Ewald Grothe

as Self

Raphael Toledano

as Self

Frédérique Neau-Dufour

as Self

Elisabeth Raiser

as Self

Pélagie Simon

as Self

Director

Kirsten Esch