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A Wall of Silence

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This documentary. In the spring of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion. The war was almost over, and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew it was lost. Late that night, they walked down to the village, where 180 enslaved Jewish laborers waited, made them strip naked, and shot them all, before returning to the bright lights of the party deals with the lost Jewish community of Rechnitz. The futile attempts to locate the mass grave of this community, which finally came true after many thorough searches.