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Hitler's Holocaust - Decision

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Second episode in a documentary series produced by the German television network ZDF that deals with the destruction of Europe's Jews. The 6-part series surveys the process that led to "The Final Solution" and the ways it was executed through archival films that were discovered in archives in Eastern Europe, testimonies, and analysis of historians. The series title Holokaust, is written intentionally with the letter K instead of C in accordance with German script in order to remind viewers that the murder of Europe's Jews was carried out by the Germans. This episode deals with the decision making process that led to the annihilation of Europe's Jews, the imprisonment in ghettos and deportation from them to the death camps Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek, Chelmno and Treblinka.