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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790715513
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790715511
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Running Time: 300 minutes
Sales Rank: 12982
Studio: BBC Warner
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More than any previous documentary about the Holocaust, Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State reveals the inner workings of the Nazi implementation of Hitler's infamous 'final solution.' Drawing on the latest academic discoveries, this remarkable BBC series presents a wide-ranging, meticulously researched biography of the titular 'killing factory' and its evolution into a highly efficient location for industrialized extermination of well over one million Jews, gypsies, and other so-called 'mongrel races' between 1940 and 1945. From 'Surprising Beginnings' to 'Liberation & Revenge,' the six-chapter program chronicles the gradual process that escalated into the Holocaust, focusing its expansive European timeline on the detailed movements of preeminent (and highly corruptible) Holocaust engineers like Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Höss, and 'death doctor' Josef Mengele. Through painstakingly authentic reenactments of crucial meetings including the Wannsee Conference (where the 'final solution' was secretly devised), we see and hear the Nazi thought processes, built on virulent hatred and bigotry, that 'justified' mass murder on an unprecedented scale.
Subtle but exacting use of computer-animated effects allows three-dimensional exploration of newly discovered architectural plans and buildings long-ago destroyed, revealing the transformation of Auschwitz as World War II progressed. Along with rare archival footage, thorough documentation, and frank testimony from Holocaust survivors and Nazi perpetrators (not all of them penitent about their crimes), these programs make expert use of commanding narration by Oscar®-winning actress Linda Hunt, who brings depth and gravitas to a grim litany of sobering facts and figures. The result is an all-encompassing portrait of Auschwitz unlike anything seen before, masterfully written and produced by Laurence Rees with equal parts tenacity, intelligence, and integrity, informed by an overriding sense of moral outrage that is entirely appropriate to the history being examined. It's a remarkable achievement, as important as Shoah as a definitive exploration of one of the darkest chapters in human history. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Heartbreaking...
Even while seeing this I asked myself "How could this really happen?" If you have a heart prepare yourself to see the callousness with which these "people" treated others. We should learn from this so that its not repeated. Please show this to a new generation. The past is prologue, to ignore it is to repeat it.
Rating: - Excellent!
My wife and I watched this from the comfort of our home. Several months later we lived it in the sweltering July heat inside the reconstructed barracks at Auschwitz. We walked through the infamous Birkenau gate. We walked the entire path from where the trains arrived to unload their human cargo to the remnants of the furnaces where they were all murdered.
We toured the offices and barracks at the main complex of Auschwitz and saw the mountains of pots & pans, prosthetic devices, suitcases, etc. I think that I was able to grasp a minute slice of the horror that these poor souls lived with but was not prepared when we entered another room a saw a room of children's shoes. We left the building and did not return. We had seen enough.
We are glad that we were able to watch the DVD prior to our trip to Auschwitz. It helped to prepare us but....
Rating: - Amazing!
This was sometimes difficult to watch but it was an amazing job and documentary of a difficult subject.
Rating: - Unforgettable.
I rented this video from the library and it has to be the greatest film ever produced about the Jewish holocaust by the Nazis. You cannot understand WWII or appreciate the valiant efforts and victories of that war unless you understand Auschwitz.
From the original design and layout of the camps, to the coerced cooperation of other European nations to give up their Jewish population, to the development of the poisonous gas, to the invasion of the Red Army and the subsequent trials and punishment of the Nazi officers, this video tells it all.
Unforgettable. And as the Jews believe today, "Never again."
Rating: - A riveting series that explores Auschwitz and the Nazi implementation of the Final Solution
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State makes for compelling viewing. It is divided into 6 chapters. The first chapter is titled "Surprising Beginnings" which basically introduces us to the origins of Auschwitz and how it was not initially designated as an extermination camp for Jews, but basically to house Polish political prisoners and later Russian POWs. In fact, the first gassing experiments in the camp were targeted at the Russian POWs.
In the second chapter "Orders and Initiatives", we learn of the plans of Hitler, Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich to kill the Jews on a massive scale. Auschwitz is prepped for this purpose by the construction of gas chambers and the use of Zyklon B, a form of poisonous gas that was initially used to exterminate vermin and a disinfecting agent. We also learn about the Lodz Ghetto and its infamous Jewish leader, Rumkowski who seemed a controversial character in oppressing his own people, though not spared death himself, in the end. The crude initial gas chambers at Auschwitz are also shown, in reconstructions.
In the third chapter "Factories of Death", the documentary explores how the systematic annihilation of the Jews was put into full operation, stretching all over Europe with Auschwitz being the center of extermination. The French authorities are also portrayed as being complicit in helping transport masses of Jews out of France to the "east". The other camps of death are also discussed such as Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor. It also mentions ... Read More
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