Erna, Helmut and the Nazis

• Movies
• 2021-04-29
• DE
• Released
• 1h 0m
• DE
• Documentary - History - TV Movie

• 7.3
• 3

Production

ARTE, Sagamedia, NDR

Storyline

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.