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This PBS makeover of the BBC series is a few years old but stands as an excellent historical look at the ultimate Nazi killing field for Jews and undesirables. Broken into six parts it shows with excellent CGI, dramatizations, and actual survivors what the Auschwitz inside details are and is done in a amazingly balanced way. One thing that is always chilling is the interviews of former SS guards and participants who, 60 years later, still have no remorse or guilt for what they did. Everyone involved on the Nazi side seems to have compartmentalized their feelings and rely on sense of duty to country to keep their hatches battened.
This is a history buff special with a lot of fresh footage on the subject and Linda Hunt's narration is precise and without melodrama. Recommended.
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Some documentaries are especially hard to watch - but need to be seen. My parents viewed Shadows and Fog with me when I was twelve. I never forgot that movie.
Oy vey! I meant Night and Fog. Got my Woody and holocaust films crossed. No disrespect meant to anyone.
I watched the first part, and can't express my sense of repulsion... and I probably already knew more about those events than 97% of the population.Like you, I was mostly shocked and disgusted by the interviews. The facts are well known, little left there that could throw me off balance, but that SS fucker really raised my blood pressure.
You are wrong, however, about the compartmentalizing - I didn't see any there. The scum was totally open and held nothing back - he hated Jews back then, simply gave them what they deserved, still hates them now. That was different from the more typical soldier's "I just followed my order, it was either I shoot, or I get shot" story.
So far looks like a powerful documentary... the discussion part in the end was weak, I thought.
I found, however, the choice of music quite unfortunate. OK, so the Sarabande was not out of place, could have been an independent pick, but the Schubert trio killed any remaining doubt - and for the life of me I can't figure out the idea... Rudolf Hess as 20th century Raymond Barry?
Out of millions of pieces of wonderful music out there - why this simpleton selection?
The film should be a mandatory viewing in every high school... but we all know it will never happen.
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Just accept it - even today those who would like us to forget are already finishing their job, and ten years from now no one will remember. How often you think about Thirty Year War? Unless the new series will star Sandra Fluke in it and free condom commercials, it is a no-go.Added to my queue - one can only watch so much crime action stuff.
Edits: 03/10/12 03/10/12
in American history books, VN a footnote, and the ME reduced to political comments about American presidencies.
Genocide was born with man and will only stop when the last one dies.
They are the only ones who truly understand. Without them, we have little hope. Unless you're like Tin and you embrace the "those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it" concept with sinister glee.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
sprouting up all over the place, including a new one in Detroit.
I don't recall any murders of Jews in Detroit, but what the hell. We're ALL guilty, right?
I wonder when an African-American slavery museum will open in Berlin?
C'mon indeed... our twitter generation sometimes, on a good day, recognizes Biden's pictures... ask a few of them about the WWII.
dfs
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