It's easy to dismiss Malte Ludin's documentary 2 Or 3 Things I Know About Him as the worst kind of apologia for wretched behavior, or maybe a feature-length attempt to say "the Nazis loved their children too." But in exploring his father's stint as a Nazi commander—which ended in execution in 1947—Ludin is less interested in defending daddy's choices than in examining how his family has dealt with the disconnect between the sweet-natured man they knew at home and the piles of documents that show the hand he played in executing Slovakian Jews. Ludin admits that he hopes to find a document that will prove his father had no direct knowledge of Hitler's "final solution," or that Dad was secretly a resistance fighter, but mostly, he's resigned himself to the facts, and now ponders whether a stain on one man's life spreads to everyone he knew.
