The well-known West German film director Theodor Kotula is shooting a film in Auschwitz titled “The Life of a German Man.” It deals with the life at the Auschwitz concentration camp in all its terrible details. The main advisor is Kazimierz Smolen, director of the Auschwitz Museum who was himself a prisoner at the camp.
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