Human Failure
Synopsis
The expropriation of assets from German Jews, during the Third Reich, benefitted virtually every other German citizen. It was not the Gestapo who invaded Jewish residences in order to confiscate all property, from bank accounts to the last shirt, it was the German Tax officials.
A bizarre competition evolved between bureaucrats as to how to organize the robbery of the Jews before they were expelled, or sent to their deaths.
Larger assets went to the tax offices, and the smaller assets and goods were sold to friends and neighbors in public auctions of “Non-Aryan“ property.
Many of the documents proving this expropriation were lost or destroyed;the ones that remained were hidden away.
A search for traces...
Reviews
Haaretz Daily Newspaper
German film director Michael Verhoeven, who is currently here as a guest of the Jerusalem Film Festival, is known in Israel mainly by virtue of one film: his sharp satire "The Nasty Girl" from 1990, which tells the story of Sonja, a high school student in a small German town who decides to write an article that will reveal the deeds of the town's inhabitants during the Third Reich. At first the townspeople object politely to Sonja's intention to reveal their past, and when politeness proves unproductive they employ violence against her. This excellent film was an international success, won many prizes and was nominated for an Oscar in the best foreign film category.
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