Vergessensfuge(2004)

movie - first aired/released 2004-06-05 - 68 min - audience 7.5

Drama

Directed by Jon Jost

Vergessensfuge is a meditation on the psychology of obedience and submission, in this instance springing from a handful of photographs taken in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after its liberation in 1945. The images are of young women, aged 20 - 30, who were guards at the camp - to say, compliant, obedient Germans doing as they were told to do.