Mr. Schmidt of the Gestapo

Original title: Herr Schmidt von der Gestapo - Filmische Dokumentation einer Beamtenkarriere

A 74-year-old man stands before the Dresden District Court. After more than forty years, the former highly decorated SS man has been brought to the scene of his crimes. The trial is the cinematic framework in which the background and mechanisms of the social system of nationalism are uncovered by tracing the social development of this SS man.

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