FILM: Doublefeature zur Rolle der Native Americans im Zweiten Weltkrieg

In the organizer's words:

NAVAJO CODE TALKERS: A JOURNEY OF REMEMBRANCE

D: Georg A. Colburn | USA 2017 | EnglishOmenglU | 70 min.

CREE CODE TALKERS
R: Alexandra Lazarowich (Cree) | Canada 2016 | Cree/englOmenglU | 13 min.

Admission 7 | 5 Euro (reduced), Tickets: Box Office only

The short film CREE CODE TALKERS commemorates Charles "Checker" Tomkins, who developed an encryption system for secret military communications based on the Cree language for the US Air Force during the Second World War.

The documentary NAVAJO CODE TALKERS: A JOURNEY OF REMEMBRANCE accompanies six Navajo veterans on their return to the Pacific islands where they had witnessed the decisive final phase of the war half a century earlier. While they were forbidden to speak the Navajo language in their reservation schools in the USA, it also made an important contribution to the Allied victory in the Pacific War as a code for military communications that the Japanese were never able to decipher.

Afterwards: Background discussion on the role of Native Americans in World War II with Jay Howard (aka Ohìdiga Saba Wamni / Brave Black Eagle, Nakota / Sioux Nation, USA/Switzerland) and Manuel Menrath (Swiss historian, museum director and author of books on Native Americans).

The film screening is part of the program accompanying the exhibition "The Third World in the Second World War" at the NS Documentation Center. See also The Third World in the Second World War

In cooperation with: FilmInitiativ Köln e.V.

Price information:

Tickets: Box Office only