In 1898, film footage was shot in the Netherlands for the first time. Long believed to be gone, this footage has been found in the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam a couple of years ago. Curator of the Filmmuseum
M. van den Tempel talks about how unique the footage is and about solving the riddle of dating footage showing
Queen Wilhelmina. The second subject is much darker: The former Nazi euthanasia institute Castle Sonnenstein. Located in Pirna, Germany, the Nazis killed thousands of mentally handicapped people as well as psychiatric patients here. Structural engineer
J. Cramer explains, in great detail, how the place looked and how it was organized.
—Marco van Hoof <k_luifje7@hotmail.com>