Thomas Harlan

In 1959 Harlan received the first of a whole series of defamation lawsuits, including from the then FDP member of the Bundestag Ernst Achenbach and Franz Alfred Six. Harlan had started in Poland, where he had also lived since 1960, with research over the Kulmhof extermination camp, Sobibór, Bełżec and Treblinka. Until 1964, Harlan contributed to the initiation of over 2000 criminal proceedings against war criminal in the Federal Republic. Since 1960 he was supported by the Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. A friendship developed into the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer.

Thomas Harlan was the son of the director Veit Harlan and the actress Hilde Körber. He spent his childhood in Berlin. Since his father enjoyed a high reputation at the National Socialist regime, he met Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels through his parents. When he was eight, he was taken to visit Adolf Hitler.

Together with Klaus Kinski, Thomas Harlan made a trip to Israel in 1952.

Harlan began studying philosophy in Tübingen in 1947 and met Michel Tournier.

When he received a three -month abroad for the Sorbonne in 1948 - Harlan was the first German student at the time to study after the war in Paris without being in Maquis - he moved to France and continued his studies in philosophy and mathematics in Paris. He started working for French radio, lived together with Gilles Deleuze at Michel Tournier, later with Pierre Boulez.

Harlan had a love affair in Warsaw to Krystyna żywulska, which was commented on by Andrzej Szczypiorski thirty years later: a foolish love than the one who has an aging Jew towards a crazy young German is difficult to imagine. "

Harlan led to Italy's death. He joined the left Lotta Continua group and began with literary work, which shaped the following years alongside his travels and filmmaking.