War criminal Dirk Hoogendam alias ‘The Boxer’ was sentenced to death by the court in the Dutch town Assen after World War II for several violent assaults and batteries and participating in foreign military service.
The sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. However, Dirk Hoogendam had already escaped and escaped to Germany in 1946, so he never served his sentence. Only a few years before his death, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf discovered that Hoogendam was living under the pseudonym Dieter Hohendamm in Ringgau, central Germany. Extradition is discussed, but it will probably be impossible, since Hoogendam has the German nationality.
For the TV program Dienstag from the Hessischer state broadcaster HR-Fernsehen in Germany, reporter Julia Klüssendorf and a camera crew travel to the Netherlands for the filming for a reportage about the Dutch war criminal. They visit the small town Nieuwlande in the north east of the Netherlands, were Hoogendam was hunting for Jews during the World War II. A historian, witnesses and family from witnesses come up with the stories about the war crimes of Dirk Hoogendam. There is even a special small war museum in the village. A search about the past of a Dutch war criminal.
For this production Featurez gave advice, did the research, setup and planning, accompanied the filming, and did some the interviews and translations.