Fog in August

Who measures the value of life? "If I hadn't euthanized him, he would have just been sent to another institution." Dr. Valentin Faltlhauser, who ordered the murder of Ernst Lossa, during the trial. Germany, 1933: Ernst Lossa comes from a family of Jenisches, Gypsies, as they were called back then. He is considered a difficult child, shuffled from home to home, until he is finally admitted to the psychiatric institution in Kaufbeuren. Here, his life takes its final, terrible turn: on the night of August 9, 1944, he is administered a lethal injection. Ernst Lossa is eliminated as "life unworthy of life," stamped with the label "asocial psychopath," despite being mentally completely healthy. Journalist Robert Domes tells the story from the perspective of the boy with impressive intensity. He makes the thought structures of the Nazi regime visible.