Closing Ceremony of the International Summer School “Nazi Forced Labor in Film”
A stranger arrives with his son in the small southern German village of Brombach, on the Swiss border. He tries to understand what happened there during World War II. The people of Brombach, however, want nothing to do with it, for they wish to forget their guilt: In 1941, Pauline, a fruit and vegetable vendor, runs her husband’s shop while he serves as a soldier on the front lines. The work is hard, and her only help comes from Stanislaw, a Polish forced laborer. They fall in love and plunge into a passionate affair—a forbidden love.
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Filmvorführung „Eine Liebe in Deutschland“
The film *A Love in Germany* is based on the book of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth, which is based on true events.
“I wanted to make this film because in all my previous productions—such as ‘A Generation,’ ‘Kanal,’ or ‘Ashes and Diamonds’—the Germans always played the role of living targets. Someone would shoot at them, they’d fall over, and that was it. That’s how Germans were typically portrayed in postwar Polish cinema. I wanted to make this film because it’s a story about Germans away from the front lines—not about the kind we saw during the occupation: armed, brutal executioners of the Polish people. It was about how the Germans behaved in their own homes.”
Andrzej Wajda
- Opening Remarks: Dr. Christine Glauning
- Director of the Documentation Center for Nazi Forced Labor
- Introduction: Participants in the International Summer School “Nazi Forced Labor in Film”
- Film Screening: “A Love Story in Germany” 97 minutes
The International Summer School, organized by the Documentation Center for Nazi Forced Labor, offers students and early-career scholars a forum for exchanging ideas on methods, research approaches, and teaching practices related to Nazi forced labor and its remembrance in postwar Europe.
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Dates
July 2026
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