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Director(s):
KLOTZ (JEAN-CHRISTOPHE)
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Producer(s):
ZADIG PRODUCTIONS, ARTE FRANCE
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2025
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Language(s):
German, English, French
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Rights:
TV, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD
This documentary follows the journey of SS commander Walter Rauff as he traveled around the world for four decades after the end of World War II. Through this story - an almost unbelievable one, set in the middle of the Cold War, this film sheds light on the hidden side of international geopolitics, the survival of Nazi criminal networks, and their enduring impact today.
Since the mid-2000s, newly declassified archives have exposed the extent to which Nazi criminals were reintegrated by various states after the Second World War. This documentary focuses on the story of Walter Rauff, an SS commander involved in the persecution and mass murder of Jewish people. His postwar journey reveals a dark and complex network that stretched from the Vatican to West Germany, Egypt, Syria, and even Israel. A network closely monitored by U.S. intelligence services who intended to use it to their advantage. Rauff later resumed his career under Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, working as an unofficial advisor to the DINA (Chile’s secret police). His story exemplifies how Nazi ideologies and methods survived the war and were absorbed into repressive regimes around the world. The disappearance of Nazi war criminals did not mark the end of their influence. Their hateful ideology and brutal tactics persist through their ideological successors, still spreading today.