• Director(s):

    BERNSTEIN (CATHERINE)

  • Producer(s):

    ZADIG PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2014

  • Language(s):

    English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

This documentary recounts his story and through it, that of the so-called “Action T4”, which consisted in eliminating physical and mental disabilities and people considered by the Nazi regime to be useless or “asocial”.

Doctor Julius Hallervorden, a major name in the science of brain pathology, first benefited from, then contributed to the systematic assassination ordered by Hitler of German mentally ill persons, by recovering the brains of 690 victims. He nevertheless pursued a brilliant post-war career, in all impunity, and died covered in honours.
 
Between 1939 and 1945, at least 200,000 ill people were assassinated.

2016: Public Award of the Best Documentary - Festival des Créations Télévisuelles de Luchon (France).