The Lost Album of the SS
The Lost Album of the SS

Movie·2025·0h 57m

The Lost Album of the SS

Directed By

Barbara Necek

Country

France

Language

German

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The Story

Original title: L'Album SS retrouvé

In 2016, an album containing 250 previously unseen photos of Nazi officials was discovered in the USA by Stephan Hördler, a prominent Holocaust historian, who immediately understood the album's inestimable value. The album brings together photographs of a "group of friends," all from the same region of Germany, all of whom became SS men. From 1928 to 1943, the photo album allows us to follow their journey. Hördler conducted the investigation, comparing the photos in the album with other, better-known ones, the faces of these men with those of concentration camp officials, and ultimately revealed that it was at Lichtencburg that these young men were trained, a "school" for future camp executioners, and the bonds of camaraderie and informal network that would allow them to help each other, even after the war.

Producer

Gaëlle Guyader, Manuel Catteau

Music

Benoît Pimont

Editor

Laure Wybier

Themes

francephotographyss (nazi schutzstaffel)world war iiinvestigationwaffen ssnazismsocial issuesdocumentarytestimonyss

Production House

ZED
Spiegel TV
France Télévisions
MDR
ARD
Histoire TV

Audience Score

80%

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Cast

Loïc Corbery

Loïc Corbery

Narrator & Voice over

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Crew

Barbara Necek

Director

Susann Reich

Director

Jobst Knigge

Jobst Knigge

Director

Gaëlle Guyader

Producer

Manuel Catteau

Producer

Kay Siering

Producer

Laure Wybier

Editor

David Holfelder

Editor

Benoît Pimont

Original Music Composer

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