"The Two Lives of Lufthansa"

Using footage, some of it previously unseen, the film recounts Lufthansa’s early days in Berlin and its entanglements with the military, the state, and National Socialism up until the end of World War II.

100 Years of Lufthansa: Film Screening at Tempelhof Airport

The film also addresses the fate of Lufthansa’s chief legal counsel, Klaus Bonhoeffer. The older brother of the pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was forced to lead a double life in order to resist the Nazis. Like his brother Dietrich, he paid for his commitment with his life in April 1945.

Following the film, there will be a discussion with director Peter Bardehle and Cornelius Grossmann, a grandson of Klaus Bonhoeffer, about Lufthansa’s early years under National Socialism and how the airline has dealt with its difficult legacy.

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