Vergessensfuge (2004)

Release Date: 2004-06-05
Runtime: 1h 8min
Production Company: Jon Jost Productions
Production Country: Germany, United States of America
Director: Jon Jost

Vergessensfuge is a meditation on the psychology of obedience and submission, in this instance springing from a handful of photographs taken in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after its liberation in 1945. The images are of young women, aged 20 - 30, who were guards at the camp - to say, compliant, obedient Germans doing as they were told to do.