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Franz Wunsch: The Auschwitz SS Guard Who Fell in Love with a Jewish Prisoner
Franz Wunsch was an SS guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau whose relationship with Jewish prisoner Helena Citrónová became one of the most controversial and morally complex stories to emerge from the Holocaust. This documentary examines Wunsch’s role within Auschwitz and the relationship he formed with Helena Citrónová, a young Slovak Jewish prisoner.
Born in Austria in 1922, Wunsch joined the SS after the Anschluss and later served on the Eastern Front before being transferred to Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. There, he took part in…
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