Films by Anna Benner

Germany 2020, 19 min
by Eluned Zoë Aiano, Anna Benner

In the early 2000s, the small Czech town of Třeboň found itself at the center of unexpected international attention when the worldwide press picked up on an obscure urban legend from World War II. The story concerns a nurse who was raped by a Nazi and contracted syphilis as a result. While tending to other wounded soldiers, she seized her opportunity for revenge and systematically seduced them to pass on the deadly disease. She was so successful that eventually the Gestapo had her executed. At l