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  • Summary: Chanoch Ze'evi's documentary examines the lives of the descendants of the top Nazi high commanders who worked under Hitler's command.
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  1. Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    Nov 16, 2012
    90
    Few will be unmoved by this film's subjects, including the great niece of Herman Goering and the daughter of concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth, as they relate the heavy burdens stemming from their fateful lineage.
  2. Reviewed by: Michelle Orange
    Nov 13, 2012
    80
    Interweaving interviews and footage of Rainer Hess's first trip to Auschwitz, Hitler's Children is a powerful and well-judged presentation of the stories and their impossibilities.
  3. Reviewed by: John Anderson
    Nov 16, 2012
    80
    The sins of the fathers have seldom weighed so heavy as in the odd, intriguing and ultimately moving Hitler's Children.
  4. Reviewed by: Mark Feeney
    Jan 3, 2013
    50
    The moral weight of Hitler's Children is unmistakable. So is that weight's inertness.

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