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Reporter Lesley Stahl interviews former slaves who had sued Volkswagen. The segment featured Professor Neuborne summing up the case of sompensation

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 15

Language : English

Tkuma - Kibbutz Galuyot, A Nation in Uniform, In the Shadow of the Shoah

Episodes in the documentary series produced by the Israel Broadcast Authority "Revival - The First 50 Years": "Ingathering of the Exiles" (the mass immigration 1948-1958), "A Nation in Uniform" (Israeli Security in the Years 1949-1956),"In the Shadow of the Shoah" (the relation of Israel to the Shoah 1948-1966).The third episode "In the Shadow of the Shoah", deals with the breach that existed between Shoah survivors and natives of Israel in the first decade of the state, the resistance that the reparations agreement with Germany aroused, and cut across political boundaries, the placing of the cornerstone of Yad...

Director : Ron Rotem, Yehuda Kaveh, Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 120

Language : Hebrew

Ben Gurion - The Other Germany and the Holocaust Remembrance

Film produced by the documentary department of Israel Television that deals with Ben Gurion and Israel-German relations after the war. Presented by Chaim Yavin.

Director : Eli Ribenbach

Production Year : 1987

Duration : 56

Language : Hebrew

In the Name of the Victims

In this documentary, an overview of the activities of a number of Jewish organizations, led by “The Prosecution Convention” as well as the history of the reparations agreement are presented. The film tries to answer the question why many Holocaust survivors are not benefiting from the monies and property that Jewish organizations succeeded in reacquiring in the name of the victims of the Nazis. Includes archival footage, photographs, interviews with Holocaust survivors, researchers, jurists, journalists, and prosecution convention issues, the foundation for Holocaust survivors welfare, and more.

Director : אילן זיו

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 55

Language : English, Hebrew

Paying For Justice

A 2007 documentary film on the YES television network aired on the evening before Holocaust Day about the economic difficulties of many Holocaust survivors living in Israel. The program focuses on the investigation by journalists Orli Vilnai-Federbush and Guy Maroz into the financial retributions that have been allocated to the survivors and have not been passed on to them. Includes interviews with survivors and with different people working in the institutions dealing with this issue. Archival footage of Moshe Sharett, Foreign Minister in Ben-Gurion's Government (1953), about the signing of the agreement for...

Director : גיא מרוז, אורלי וילנאי פדרבוש

Production Year : 2007

Language : Hebrew

The Templers - Secrets in Tel Aviv

This documentary explores the German Templers settlement in British Mandate Palestine. The Templers (Members of the Temple Society; Tempelgesellschaft), a religious protestant order founded in south Germany in the 2nd half of the 19th century, believed that redemption (2nd coming of Christ) would arrive only by inhabiting the Holy land. They settled in Palestine as of the 19th Century until their deportation by the Britishץ under suspicion charges of collaboration with the Nazis. The film tells of their lives in this country, Sarona and other agricultural settlements, community life, good neighborhood relations...

Director : Arie Gur

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 80

Language : Hebrew

Norway's Nazi Secret

Through the story of Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), the famed member of Abba, this documentary tells of the Lebensborn Program, an initiation of Himmler to encourage the creation of a “Master Race”. Within the project, a special homes in Germany and other occupied countries were established with the aim of breeding racially superior children with blond hair, blue or grayish eyes, narrow and long faces and a clear chin - the future generation of pure German Aryans. Lebensborn children were born to SS men united in marriage or not with women who were carefully selected. About 8,000 children were born within the...

Director : Tom Sheahan

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 50

Language : English

Stuart Eizenstat: The Man Behind the Nazi Gold Reports

Stuart Eizenstat, Undersecretary of State of the United States during the Clinton administration, initiated a wide ranging investigation into the role of the neutral countries during the Second World War. His first 'Eizenstat report', that was published in may 1997 accused Switzerland of having assisted in prolonging the war by its serving as a banker for the Nazi regime. This report caused worldwide upheaval on the role of Switzerland as a neutral country.

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 25

Language : English

Germany and Israel, From Persecutor to Friend

יחסי ישראל-גרמניה מאז תום מלה"ע ה-2. משתתפים: שמעון פרס, טדי קולק, יצחק שמיר, אשר בן-נתן, אבי פרימור, פטרה רות', ועוד.

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 26

Language : English

The World At War - Reckoning, 1945 And After

Episode in a 26-part documentary series that presents a detailed survey of World War II. Episode 25 - "Reckoning, 1945 And After": The four victorious armies supervise the healing of Germany. In accordance with arrangements for the division of areas agreed among them in Yalta, the Russian area will include food and raw materials and the Americans, British and French will include the industry. Trade between the eastern and western areas is supposed to begin by a meeting of the three leaders of Russia, USA, and Great Britain in Potsdam in July 1945, but the lack of trust between them is evident. When the Japanese...

Director : Jerome Kuehl

Production Year : 1974

Duration : 52

Language : English

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