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10 Best Movies Like Erna, Helmut and the Nazis

If you loved Erna, Helmut and the Nazis, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Hitler: A Career

Hitler: A Career

1977★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Erna, Helmut and the Nazis for fans of Documentary & History. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desp...

#2
Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"

Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"

2022★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Erna, Helmut and the Nazis for fans of Documentary & History. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police battalions, whose members shot men,...

#3
Night Will Fall

Night Will Fall

2014★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Erna, Helmut and the Nazis for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full...

#4
Salinger

Salinger

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Erna, Helmut and the Nazis for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable wall of a self-imposed seclus...

#5
Misha and the Wolves

Misha and the Wolves

2021★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Erna, Helmut and the Nazis for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth....

#6
Riefenstahl

Riefenstahl

2024★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Erna, Helmut and the Nazis for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her self-portrayal with evidence suggesting awareness of the regime's atrocities....

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