Erna, Helmut and the Nazis
Germany, 1929. Helmut Machemer and Erna Schwalbe fall madly in love and marry in 1932. Everything indicates that a bright future awaits them; but then, in 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power and their lives are suddenly put in danger because of Erna's Jewish ancestry.
- Year: 2021
- Country: Germany
- Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Studio: ARTE, Sagamedia, NDR
- Keyword: husband wife relationship, holocaust (shoah), world war ii, jew persecution, family secrets, third reich (iii reich 1933-45), racial prejudice, 1940s, war doctor, home movies, antisemitism, nazi germany
- Director: Jutta Pinzler, Stephan Sattig
- Cast: Michaela Kametz, Hans Machemer, Thea Wilmer, Ludger Terliesner, Hermann Krumme, Matthias Kiel