Working for the Enemy - Forced labour in the Third Reich
In conversations with the children and grandchildren of the victims and perpetrators of forced labour, the series tells a story of reconciliation in modern Europe.
Genre: Documentary
S1.E1 ∙ Lost Youth
Among the deportees, Ellis Hertzberger, from Rotterdam, was sent to a transit camp as a doctor. The young Pole, Josef Bednarz, was placed in the service of a farming family in southern Germany, who mistreated him.
S1.E2 ∙ Forbidden Love
Josef Bednarz develops a romantic relationship with Marta, the niece of the local Nazi party leader, despite the risks involved. It is strictly forbidden for Germans to have relations with forced laborers, on pain of death.
S1.E3 ∙ The Forgotten Trauma
After the war, as "displaced persons", a small number of forced laborers were able to return to their homeland. Some, like the young Pole Josef Bednarz, decided to stay in the enemy country, despite the trauma.
