24 May '12

“Chanoch Ze’evi’s remarkable film interviewed the descendents of several signal Nazi war criminals, including the son of Hans Frank, who was the Governor-General of Occupied Poland, and the grandson of Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz. They were, in one respect, an unrepresentative group… inheritors of a national and familial guilt who had not retreated into denial (as some of their siblings had) and who regarded it as their duty to talk. But they shared something too.” 
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“It was a film that had almost everything. It informed, it surprised, it made me think. Is killing just one or two people more acceptable than killing seven or eight? Where are the boundaries of love and forgiveness? Are there any, even? Remarkably, the film even had a happy ending.”
John Crace, The Guardian

“The most extraordinary part of the extraordinary film was Rainer Hoess’s visit to Auschwitz. He had been haunted by photographs of his father growing yp in some kind of idyllic childhood in the private ground attached to the death camp, driving toy cars, beautifully made by inmates.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“These stories were fascinating, they offered us little insight into the way the German people as whole cope with their past.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

“It was the perfect antidote to the more melancholy aspects of Hitler’s Children, a nightmare vision, for a Nazi ideologue, of a mongrel world in which the weak and the vulnerable are cared for and nursed, rather than loaded into the back of a euthanasia van.” 
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Ok for ER but off-colour when it concerns a real life.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

“The plot was also all too familiar, a complicated and unlikely story about a group of seemingly unconnected people who had all been at Oxford together sometime in the past. Christ, if I’d wanted to watch that, I’d have just gone into the office.”
John Crace, The Guardian