Erna, Helmut and the Nazis

Germany, 1929. Helmut Machemer and Erna Schwalbe fall madly in love and marry in 1932. Everything indicates that a bright future awaits them; but then, in 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power and their lives are suddenly put in danger because of Erna's Jewish ancestry.

• Jutta PinzlerDirector
• Stephan SattigDirector

• Michaela KametzSelf - Narrator (voice)
• Hans MachemerSelf
• Thea WilmerSelf
• Ludger TerliesnerSelf
• Hermann KrummeSelf
• Matthias KielAdditional Voice (voice)
• Miriam JansenAdditional Voice (voice)
• Uli AuerAdditional Voice (voice)
• Claudia KaffankeAdditional Voice (voice)
• Nick GardinerAdditional Voice (voice)
• Helmut MachenerSelf (archive footage)
• Erna SchwalbeSelf (archive footage)