1945: The Savage Peace

How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic Germans who had lived peacefully for centuries in Germany's neighboring countries, such as Czechoslovakia and Poland. A heartbreaking story of revenge against innocent civilians, the story of acts as cruel as the Nazi occupation during the war years.

2015

Documentary·History·TV Movie

1h 0min

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Top Billed Cast

Michael Pennington
Narrator (voice)
Christa Ronke
Self - Witness
Marianne Becker
Self - Witness
Meda Mládek
Self - Witness
Stanislava Zverinova
Self - Witness
Helena Dvorácková
Self - Witness
Milena Sukova
Self - Witness
Hugo Fritsch
Self - Witness
Emil Pupik
Self - Witness
Peter Klepsch
Self - Witness
Gerhard Gruschka
Self - Witness
Dorota Boroczek
Self - Witness
Horst Theml
Self - Witness
Sieglinde Kenzler
Self - Witness
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)
Иосиф Сталин
Self (archive footage)
Karl Hermann Frank
Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)

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