My family and the Nazis - Remembrance after 80 years | DW Documentary

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A 17-year-old Polish forced laborer was executed by the Nazis in 1942. It was Stefan Weger's great-grandmother who testified against him.

After many decades, German photographer Stefan Weger began to question his family's long silence. His photo project “Luise” grapples with guilt, denial, and responsibility.

Daniel Sieczkowski from Poland meanwhile, is also searching for answers: His grandmother was deported to Nazi Germany as a young woman. She and many other Poles were sold off like cattle, regarded by the Nazis as “racially inferior”. They were the second largest group of civilian forced laborers after Soviet citizens – and are estimated to have numbered up to three million.

Two people from the same generation with two very different perspectives. A generation that is asking hard questions: "What did our ancestors do? And what does that mean for us today?" A search for answers amid denial and repression – and the future of remembrance.

Additional Music: Olha Rodina

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