Films by Regine Dura

Germany 2012, 74 min
by Regine Dura

 September 8, 1948. The overseas landing stage of Cape Town harbour is crowded with a group of middle aged men waiting for children from  Germany. The fathers-to-be are members of the right-wing Broederbond, stalwart believers in 'Apartheid'. Behind the children’s transport stands an unprecedented adoption scheme: Nazi elite offspring of 'Aryan blood' shall insure 'good genes' and help to 'stay white on a black continent'. The film tells the life stories of Werner Schellack and Peter Ammermann,