WOMEN OF COURAGE: IT MATTERED TO ME - DR HILTGUNT ZASSENHAUS [Main Title]

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  • Title: WOMEN OF COURAGE: IT MATTERED TO ME - DR HILTGUNT ZASSENHAUS [Main Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 1973
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  • Summary: Television documentary series featuring women who have shown great courage in their lives. This episode features Dr Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, a German doctor who lived a double life as the wife of a Gestapo officer who helped over 12,000 men survive life in various concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Forty years after the end of the Second World War Dr Zassenhaus is reunited in Copenhagen with a number of the men who owed their lives to her.
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  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: MGH 1973
  • Sound: Sound
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  • Production Date: 1980
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Yorkshire Television (Production company) Morley, Peter (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 1897 ft; Running time: 40 mins
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