Films by Josef Pröll

Germany 2019, 74 min
by Josef Pröll

This film tells the story of two Augsburg families. Before 1933, they were highly respected business people, whose reputations extended well beyond Augsburg and Swabia. After the Nazis "Aryanized" Jewish property, they were forced to sell their businesses and valuable real estate holdings. The film shows, objectively and without lecturing, how perfidiously the system worked; which government agencies were ensnarled in the enforcement of its policies; and how unscrupulously peopleused the plight