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Hitler's Evil Science

Hitler's Evil Science

2019•1h 38m•7.0/10
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie

Ratings

🎬TMDb
7.0/10(11)

In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scientific community supported Nazism, distorted history to legitimize a hideous system and was an accomplice to its unspeakable crimes. The story of the Ahnenerbe, a sinister organization created to rewrite the obscure origins of a nation.

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Production

ARTE, Upside Télévision

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Vincent Lindon

Vincent Lindon

Self - Narrator (voice)

Yves Ternon

Self - Historian / Physician

Michael Kater

Self - Historian

Laurent Olivier

Self - Archeologist / Historian

Peter Schöttler

Self - Historian

Christian Ingrao

Self - Historian

Christina Kott

Self - Historian

Raphaël Toledano

Self - Physician

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Ernst Schäfer

Ernst Schäfer

Self - Explorer (archive footage)

Bruno Beger

Bruno Beger

Self - Anthropologist (archive footage)

Richard Walther Darré

Richard Walther Darré

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Wolfram Sievers

Wolfram Sievers

Self - Ahnenerbe Director (archive footage)

Ernest Idoux

Self - Farmer (archive footage)

Henri Henripierre

Self - Hirt's Employee (archive footage)

Telford Taylor

Self - Prosecutor (archive footage)

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