The Jewish Nazi? | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

This film tells the staggering story of Melbourne's Alex Kurzem, a young boy who escaped the massacre of his family's sh | dG1fYTZRRnVQZk43SHc

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00:00Alex Kersens is one of the most remarkable stories to emerge from the war.

00:13The little Jewish boy who became a Nazi mascot.

00:23He was a child who had to conceal his identity, had to lie.

00:28Had to keep it as a secret because I was a Jewish boy amongst Nazis.

00:36The Latvians took him in. They looked after him, they gave him a uniform, a gun.

00:41He was part of the battalion.

00:43And you became a real hero?

00:45Real hero, yeah.

00:47Did you witness any executions?

00:49Oh yeah, all the time.

00:55Dad had no name, no birth certificate, no date of birth, nothing.

01:00I made myself forget my Jewish name because the Germans and the Latvians wouldn't keep a Jewish boy, would they?

01:09Aldi felt deeply that he was nameless.

01:13Once I knew the truth about my father's past, I felt it was a story worth telling.

01:19You grew up here?

01:21In this house?

01:22Yes.

01:23For a century he kept his past a secret. Even his closest family didn't know what he'd done.

01:28Have you found your name?

01:29Well, no.

01:32How can you believe that?

01:35The Jews called him a traitor and the Latvians called him a liar.

01:39This is a lie. I would punch them in the face.

01:42This is not the true story. It was wrong then and it's wrong now.

01:49The Holocaust is sacred for us, so the idea that there could be a hoax, it's a big deal.

01:55How do you reconcile this?

01:58The story just kept getting crazier and crazier.

02:01Sorry.

02:06I don't know who I am.

02:19I don't know who I am.