Kinderland ist abgebrannt (1998)
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Twelve women look back on their schooldays together in 1930s Ulm, where political divisions shaped the classroom.
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In this documentary, twelve women recall the schooldays they shared in Ulm during the 1930s. Some now live in the United States and Israel. Their memories describe girls from Jewish and Christian backgrounds and the differing attractions the Hitler Youth held for them. They also recount divisions among classmates: Christian, middle-class pupils on one side, and Jewish girls and girls from social-democratic backgrounds on the other. The film presents their recollections of growing up together amid these divides.
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Kinderland ist abgebrannt is a documentary film made in 1998. In it, twelve women—some of whom now live in the United States and Israel—recall their schooldays together in Ulm in the 1930s. The girls, some Jewish and some Christian, describe both the fascination the Hitler Youth held for them and the division within their class between Christian, middle-class pupils on the one hand and Jewish girls and girls from social-democratic backgrounds on the other.
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