Promised New Zealand

Overview

Police hold placards in front of Jewish, emblazoned with the words "don't buy from Jews;" others put up signs to identify places where Jews are to be denied entry. SA men smashed Jewish shop windows, owners are terrorized into relinquishing their businesses, and home are visited Gestapo who take family members away. The year is is 1993 and this is life in Fuhrer's Germany.

Author Biography

Born in 1950 in Dresden, Freya Kiler is afilmaker and author with a long history of political activism. In 1968, she was sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment when her attempt to flee East Germany failed. In 1980, she co-founded the German Democratic Republic (GRD) peace movement and in 1988 was arrested with other civil rights activists, stripped of her citizenship and compelled to elave the one-party communist state. Today she lives in Berlin and is the author of many books on wartime Europe. Born in 1950 in Dresden, Freya Kiler is a filmmaker and author with a long history of political activism. In 1968, she was sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment when her attempt to flee East Germany failed. In 1980, she co-founded the German Democratic Republic (GRD) peace movement and in 1988 was arrested with other civil rights activists, stripped of her citizenship and compelled to leave the one-party communist state. Today she lives in Berlin and is the author of many books on wartime Europe.