The Heyde/Sawade Affair

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The Heyde-Sawade-affair (Original title: Die Affaere Heyde-Sawade) is a 1963 film produced for the First Programme of the former German Democratic Republic (former GDR) television. The movie has been produced by the DEFA-studios for movies in Potsdam/Babelsberg former GDR near Berlin

The Heyde-Sawade-Affair
Directed by	Wolfgang Luderer
Produced by	Bernhard Gelbe
Written by	Wolfgang Luderer, Walter Jupé, Friedrich Karl Kaul
Starring	Martin Floerchinger Harry Hindemith Walter Jupé Marga Legal Peter Sturm
Music by	Wolfgang Pietsch
Cinematography	Günter Marczinkowsky
Editing by	Wolfgang Luderer, Walter Jupé, Friedrich Karl Kaul
Distributed by	DEFA studios (GDR) (non-US)
Release date(s)	June 3, 1963
Running time	101 min.
Country	former GDR
Language	German

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After being responsible for the murder in round about 100.000 so called "euthanasia" cases in Nazi Germany till 1945, Dr. Fritz Sawade has lived uncovered under wrong name after the war in Northern Germany's Schleswig-Holstein. His true identity remains unclear over fourteen years occupied with medical expertises for the post-war Western Germany's justice. His wife had declared her husband as dead and received for this time a pension for a widow of a psychology professor. After being captured by the justice, Dr. Fritz Sawade alias SS psychiatrist and physician Professor Dr. Werner Heyde found dead in his jail right before beginning of his trial. The film is a propaganda-movie from communist Eastern Germany.

[edit] Bibliography

Heidi Stecker: Opfer und Taeter: Tante Marianne und so weiter, in: Deutsches Aerzteblatt 103 (Ausgabe 28-29, 17.07.2006), Seite A-1982/B-1703/C-1647(In German)
Jürgen Schreiber: Ein Maler aus Deutschland. Gerhard Richter. Das Drama einer Familie, Munich: Pendo-Verlag 2005. ISBN 3-86612-058-3 (In German)
Eckhart Gillen: Gerhard Richter: Herr Heyde oder die Moerder sind unter uns. Die Auseinandersetzung mit den Traumata der verdrängten Geschichte in Westdeutschland, in: Eckhart Gillen: „Schwierigkeiten beim Suchen der Wahrheit“ (…), Berlin 2002, S. 186-191 (In German)
Christiane Rothmaler: Sterilisationen nach dem "Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses" vom 14. Juli 1933: eine Untersuchung zur Taetigkeit des Erbgesundheitsgerichtes und zur Durchführung des Gesetzes in Hamburg in der Zeit zwischen 1934 und 1944, Husum: Matthiesen-Verlag 1991 (=Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften 60) (Zugleich Hamburg: Universitaets-Dissertation 1986). ISBN 3-7868-4060-1 (In German)
Ernst Klee: Was sie taten - was sie wurden, Frankfurt 1986 (=Fischer Taschenbuch 4364) ISBN 3-596-24364-5 (In German)
Karl Heinz Roth: Filmpropaganda und Vernichtung der Geisteskranken und Behinderten im Dritten Reich, Hamburg 1986. (In German)
Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schuettke: Die Heyde/Sawade-Affaere, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5717-7 (In German)
Friedrich Karl Kaul: Dr. Sawade macht Karriere. Der Fall des Euthanasiearztes Dr. Heyde, Frankfurt 1971. (In German)
Alexander Mitscherlich / Fred Mielke (Hrsg.): Medizin ohne Menschlichkeit. Dokumente des Nürnberger Aerzteprozesses, (=Fischer Bücherei 332) Frankfurt am Main 1960. (In German)