The Holocaust - The Liberation Of Auschwitz DVD

Advantages: Well made, Good graphics, excellent content
Disadvantages: None

...This double DVD depicts the horrors of the 'Jewish Question' and the 'Final Solution', showing the conception of different killing methods, detailed eye witness accounts both by the survivor and Nazis, and detailed computer animation to show you buildings / crematoriums that were destroyed by the Germans, when they realised that the war was over. This program was originally a BBC documentary and you can tell..... a very good quality drama / documentary, showing key decisions being made by the Germans that turned Auschwitz in to the Worlds biggest killing ground. As the German invasion in to Europe contimued, more and more Jews were being rounded up and the queation of what to do with them became a paramount importance to the German high command. Then Hitler wanted the Jews to 'Disappear' and the dawn of the holocaust of the Jew... Read review

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Advantages: Great performances, fantastic direction,emotionally intense
Disadvantages: Not meant for sensitive people,some of the scenes are too shocking

...First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. Pastor Martin Niemöller One of the memorable poems composed in honor of the Holocaust. As the world observes the 60th anniversary of the release of Auschwitz,I thought it to be appropriate to review one of the finest movies related to the Holocaust, The Pianist . I think along with Schindlers List this is one of the best movies related to that topic. But there are differences while Schindlers List dealt with the attempts of one man to save Jews from extermination, The Pianist deals... Read review

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...tracked down more than 70 of them. His biggest success was bringing Franz Stangl to justice in West Germany in 1967. Stangl was commandant at Treblinka where an estimated 800,000 Jews died. In all, he was believed to have brought 1100 war criminals to trial. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, set up in the United States in 1977, has pressed for the extradition of numerous war crimes suspects, as well as campaigning for the rights of Holocaust survivors and an end to pensions for SS officers. "I might forgive them for myself," he once said, "but I couldn't speak for the millions they killed." In 1986, he succeeded in having gypsy representatives included on the Holocaust Memorial Council in Washington DC. His biggest disappointments were his failure to secure the capture of Gestapo chief, Heinrich Muller, and Auschwitz doctor, Josef Mengele, who... Read review

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