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My Nazi Legacy (PG)
Directed by Philippe Sands
5/5

MOST weeks see the release of horror films replete with cynically orchestrated terror designed to terrify cinemagoers.

But what’s truly scary in this film by international human rights lawyer Philippe Sands’ (middle) is that it’s fiction-free. In this documentary, he challenges two different men to try and come to terms with their indelible pasts as sons of senior nazi officials.

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