Polanski and Frank recall the shocking horror and evil

German television station, ZDF screened last evening a programme on the first days of World War ll.

Within the first three weeks of September 1939 the Germans began to round up its 'enemies' in Poland.

What made the programme so close and shocking were the two interviews with Roman Polanski and Niklas Frank.

Polanski was a young child in Poland at the time and recalled in the programme the brutality of the Germans. And Niklas Frank is the son of Hans Frank, who was Hitler's man in Poland. Niklas was born in 1939 and refers to his executed father as  "A slime-hole of a Hitler fanatic".

In the programme Niklas remembers the splendour of the life his family lived and as an 11-year old child was aware of the brutality meted out by his father and mother to the Jews.

Polanski explained how one day his brother did not greet a German soldier so the soldier hit him so hard that he broke the young man's ear drum.

"My brother was humiliated and I was too," he said.