--- title: "What Our Fathers Did": Exclusive Clip From New Documentary description: In this clip from the new documentary “What Our Fathers Did,” the son of a Nazi reckons with the crimes of his father. canonical: https://time.com/4092626/what-our-fathers-did-clip/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-03T17:56:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:06.207Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: How the Sons of Nazis Reckon With Their Fathers' Legacies: Exclusive og:description: In this clip from the new documentary “What Our Fathers Did,” the son of a Nazi reckons with the crimes of his father. og:url: https://time.com/4092626/what-our-fathers-did-clip/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6cddf43836d0d23/69886f8a8e06013bd7463284/children-of-nazis.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Children-of-Nazis og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How the Sons of Nazis Reckon With Their Fathers' Legacies: Exclusive twitter:description: In this clip from the new documentary “What Our Fathers Did,” the son of a Nazi reckons with the crimes of his father. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6cddf43836d0d23/69886f8a8e06013bd7463284/children-of-nazis.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See How the Children of Nazis Reckon With Their Fathers' Legacies > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Nov 3, 2015 5:56 PM UTC   by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Nov 3, 2015 5:56 PM UTC Philippe Sands, Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter were unlikely candidates to develop close, personal relationships with one another. All of Sands’ grandfather’s relatives—save for his grandfather—were killed in the Holocaust. Meanwhile, Frank’s and von Wächter’s fathers were two of the top-ranking Nazis who ordered their deaths. But research for a [book](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385350716/?tag=timecom-20) led Sands to Frank, and then to von Wächter; their stories became fodder for an [article](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/7d6214f2-b2be-11e2-8540-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3pwZpwNda). That article, in turn, became the inspiration for a new documentary, _What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy_, opening in limited release Nov. 6. Despite their fathers’ common occupations, Frank and von Wächter have one key difference: Frank believes his father was a mass murderer who deserved to hang at Nuremberg—and he wrote as much in his controversial 1987 book _Der Vater (The Father)_. Von Wächter believes that his father, as Sands recently told TIME, “was basically a good and decent man who did the right thing.” In the exclusive clip above, von Wächter discusses his mother’s Nazi pride and his limited interaction with his father. Sands explains why it is a remarkable moment in the documentary. “First, he’s completely open with me about what a Nazi his mom was, and secondly, he’s given me his family footage, his family archives. There is no other person like him who’s ever been filmed on camera.” The two men might have been reluctant to air their stories, and Sands might have found it difficult to become close to them. Instead, the three of them developed an honest and open relationship—what Sands calls “a chemistry between us of trust and humanity”—which made the documentary possible. “The two men who carry their families’ stories transmit those stories to future generations,” he says. Their fathers may be long dead, but “the underlying issues that gave rise to these horrors in the first place are all still there.” ### Color Photos of Hitler Among the Crowds  Adolf Hitler greets the cheering throng at a rally in 1937. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, Germany, 1937. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Austrians cheer Adolf Hitler during his 1938 campaign (before the Anschluss) to unite Austria and Germany. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Austrians cheer Adolf Hitler during his 1938 campaign (before the Anschluss) to unite Austria and Germany. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Crowds greet a saluting Adolf Hitler at a cornerstone ceremony at a Volkswagen factory, 1938. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Crowds greet a saluting Adolf Hitler at a cornerstone ceremony at a Volkswagen factory, 1938. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Crowds at a cornerstone ceremony at a Volkswagen factory, 1938. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Torchlight rally honoring Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday, 1939. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Hundreds of thousands gather at a harvest festival and Nazi Party rally in Germany, 1937. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Guests of honor at a military demonstration for Hitler's 50th birthday celebration in Berlin. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A crowd cheers in Florence, Italy, during Hitler's state visit in 1938. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Italian fascists during Adolf Hitler's 1938 state visit. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A crowd in Munich, Germany, around the time of the 1938 Munich Conference. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Paying tribute to Hitler during celebrations for his 50th birthday, Berlin, 1939. 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