El Amigo de Todos
The story of Hauke Bert Pattist, a Netherlander Nazi who served in the Waffen SS and after the World War II he escaped to Spain for living in Asturias. Following a deep investigation about his late li…
El Amigo de Todos
The story of Hauke Bert Pattist, a Netherlander Nazi who served in the Waffen SS and after the World War II he escaped to Spain for living in Asturias. Following a deep investigation about his late life, the documentary introduces Hauke Bert Pattist (1920-2001), who in 1943 he voluntarily entered the Waffen-SS to collaborate with the Third Reich. Merciless Nazi officer in his natal Netherland, he was responsible of prosecute, torture and kill several Jews. In 1948, three years later of the end of World War II, Pattist was arrested and condemned of a life sentence in a Dutch prison, but he fled six months later and he moved from Dutchland to Spain, establishing his new residence in Oviedo, Asturias' capital, where he turned into a rich businessman related not only to the city, but The International Descend of the river Sella, previously created in 1929, to give it more relevance at a nationwide scale. When his past was uncovered in 1978, one year later the Netherland's government requested his extradition to be judged again by his crimes, but Spain's government never did it. Talking with journalists, historians and people who met him, "El amigo de todos" (The Friend of Everybody) explores how Nazi officers were overprotected in Spain not only in Franco's dictatorship, but in the later democracy too. —Chockys
El Amigo de Todos
Documentary
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The story of Hauke Bert Pattist, a Netherlander Nazi who served in the Waffen SS and after the World War II he escaped to Spain for living in Asturias. Following a deep investigation about his late life, the documentary introduces Hauke Bert Pattist (1920-2001), who in 1943 he voluntarily entered the Waffen-SS to collaborate with the Third Reich. Merciless Nazi officer in his natal Netherland, he was responsible of prosecute, torture and kill several Jews.
In 1948, three years later of the end of World War II, Pattist was arrested and condemned of a life sentence in a Dutch prison, but he fled six months later and he moved from Dutchland to Spain, establishing his new residence in Oviedo, Asturias' capital, where he turned into a rich businessman related not only to the city, but The International Descend of the river Sella, previously created in 1929, to give it more relevance at a nationwide scale. When his past was uncovered in 1978, one year later the Netherland's government requested his extradition to be judged again by his crimes, but Spain's government never did it. Talking with journalists, historians and people who met him, "El amigo de todos" (The Friend of Everybody) explores how Nazi officers were overprotected in Spain not only in Franco's dictatorship, but in the later democracy too.
—Chockys.