“In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women. One of them, Lilly Wust, (“Aimee”, played by Juliane Köhler), married and the mother of four sons, enjoys the privileges of her stature as an exemplar of Nazi motherhood. For her, this affair will be the most decisive experience of her life. For the other woman, Felice Schragenheim (“Jaguar”, played by Maria Schrader), a Jewess and member of the underground, their love fuels her with the hope that she will survive.”
Based off a true story. Excellent acting. Very intense and heart breaking, but great movie. It makes you want to hold your girlfriend, boyfriend, or cat, extremely tight and not let go.
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March 16, 1911: Josef Mengele is born in Günzburg, Bavaria.
This most notorious of Nazi doctors was, to his colleagues, intelligent, gentle, and collected - a somewhat unimpressive-looking man whose most recognizable feature was the rather endearing gap between his front teeth. The inmates at Auschwitz, however, nicknamed him “the White Angel”, and later, “the Angel of Death”.
Mengele joined the SS in 1938 and was promoted to a high-ranking medical position at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943. There, he performed various experiments - most famously on twins, who fascinated Mengele, but also on those afflicted with dwarfism, on pregnant women, on children of all ages. His experiments were ‘experiments’ in the loosest sense, for, unlike many of those conducted at Ravensbrück and elsewhere, few of his strange, gruesome surgeries, amputations, and dissections had practical value. Once, Mengele reportedly attempted to create artificial conjoined twins by sewing two children together, simply in the name of ‘science’. He, along with other camp physicians, helped determine who was healthy enough to work, and who would be sent to the gas chambers.
After the war ended, Mengele was not present at the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial, despite being one of the most infamous of them all, for he had seemingly disappeared. It was later discovered that, like his fellow Nazi Adolf Eichmann, Mengele had fled to Argentina. Mengele was luckier than Eichmann, who was captured and later executed in Israel, and, despite international efforts to hunt him down, the “Angel of Death” lived out the rest of his life (thirty-four years) under a false name.
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