Introduction

Hitler’s Henchmen (German: Hitler’s Helfer) is a biography, war documentary hosted by David Ritchie, published by SBS in 1996 and 1998.

Outline

He greeted the death trains arriving at Auschwitz on the look out for ‘good subjects’ for his unspeakable ‘medical experiments’. Thousands would die truly terrible deaths as human guinea pigs for the doctor Anne Frank called the ‘Angel of Extermination’.

Josef Mengele enjoyed inspecting the shattered Holocaust victims in his search for suitable material for the pseudo-scientific experiments he was engaged in. For Mengele, these victims of Nazi racial hatred were nothing more than human guinea pigs. Twins had a particularly bad time. They were evaluated and subjected to experiments, and then they were dissected and recorded. The way they suffered and died is a disgrace to humanity. The only thing the concentration camp doctor was thinking behind the unscrupulous foreground of a perverted ruler race domineering and reproductive policy was his own career. After the war, Mengele managed to hide in South America until his death in 1979. The autopsy of his remains puts an end to a number of strange speculations about where he is and how long he managed to survive.

The film goes through carefully the crimes Mengele committed, and what purpose was behind it. Survivors of his horrific experiments give their eyewitness accounts. In addition, his secret “second life” after the war is revealed.

Hitler’s Henchmen Series

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Production & Filming Details

• Release Date: 1998.
• Running Time: 54 minutes.
• Rating: Unknown.
• Country: Australia.
• Language: English.

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