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A thriller. On May 27, 1942 the German Reichsprotector of Bohemia/Moravia, the "Hangman" Reinhard Heydrich, died from the bullets of unidentified resistance fighters. The film is the story of Heydrich's assassination and of the search for his assassinators, two Czech underground members. The film was made in the United states of America during the Nazi occupation of the Czech Republic. The film was co-scripted by two German exiles, director Fritz Lang and playwrighter Bertolt Brecht.

Director : Fritz Lang

Production Year : 1943

Duration : 129

Language : English

Operation Daybreak

Drama about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich a man of the SS security service and Reichprotector in Bohemia and Moravia. The film reconstructs the steps that led to the assassination of the one who was known by the nickname "the hangman of Prague" on May 27, 1942 by a cell of Czech expatriates who trained secretly in England and also the slaughter in the village of Lidice which followed in reaction to the assassination. Operation Daybreak is based on the book by Alan Burgess "Seven Men at Daybreak" published in 1960.

Director : Lewis Gilbert

Production Year : 1975

Duration : 120

Language : English, German

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie - Part 1

The first part of a four-hour documentary film about the escaped Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbi who served as head of the Gestapo in Lyons, France. Barbi, who was known as "The Butcher of Lyons", is responsible for the deaths of members of the French Resistance and thousands of Jews. The film describes his life from childhood in Germany until his trial in 1983, after he succeeded for around 40 years in evading trial. Winner of the 1988 Oscar Award as best film in the documentary film category.

Director : Marcel Ophüls

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 137

Language : French

מועדון הסרט עונה שישית - מפגש שלישי - על הסרט 'הועידה'

מועדון הסרט עונה שישית, מפגש מספר שלוש. התקיים ביום שלישי בתאריך 31.5.2022. הקלטת המפגש בהנחייתה של אורלי ניר מאגף הנצחה וקשרי קהילה. ד"ר יוחאי כהן, מאגף הנצחה וקשרי קהילה הרצה על ועידת ואנזה, על המשתתפים ועל התוכן של הועידה. אורלי הרצתה על במאי הסרט מתי גשונק ועל הרקע שלו.

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 23

Language : Hebrew

The Conference

At the invitation of Reinhard Heydrich, fifteen high-ranking representatives of the National Socialist Reich government and the SS authorities met on the morning of January 20, 1942 in a villa on the Großer Wannsee in Berlin for a "meeting followed by breakfast". The exclusive topic of this round of discussions, which will later go down in history as the Wannsee Conference, is what the National Socialists called the final solution to the Jewish question . The participants discuss organizational issues and determine responsibilities that affect the systematic mass murder of millions of Jews in Europe ,...

Director : Matti Geschonneck

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 108

Language : German

מעגל הרשע של היטלר - פרק 7 - עלייתו ונפילתו של ריינהרד היידריך

A docu-drama television series. Episode 7 : Men like ex-chicken farmer and leader of the SS — Heinrich immler, Hitler’s adoring but mentally unhinged deputy — Rudolf Hess, fighter ace turned morphine addict — Hermann Göring and sex-crazed propaganda chief — Joseph Goebbels. As they scrabble for power, they will turn on each other in a murky atmosphere of intrigue, betrayal and murder. In a regime where all power derives from one man, they strive to out-do each other in brutality and an unequivocal commitment to the Nazi cause.

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 52

Language : English

The Bureaucracy of Madness

A video art short. In 1993 no one left the movie theater untouched by the power of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List,Professor Emeritus Stephen Jablonsky included. Jablonsky went home and wrote a four movement homage to his cinematic achievement. This is the second movement. In music and images it tells the story of how Germany reorganized itself under Nazi rule to conquer and enslave Europe, and visit genocide on its enemies. Jablonsky hopeS this is a lesson to all of us to be on the lookout for any congregation of politicians bereft of morality and human decency. Sadly, the history of unbridled evil is as...

Director : Stephen Jablonsky

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 7

Language : Silent Film

The Unseen Holocaust

A documentary film. Decades after Nazi death camps were finally closed: exclusive new footage from Soviet Film Archives has emerged revealing the true extent of the horrors before what was known as the Holocaust. While one often thinks of the camp system as a killing machine of gas chambers at places like Auschwits, this new documentary shows that Germany was killings on a massive scale earlierthan thought. There was another side of the killing, one that is rarely seen or talked about in the west. On the Estern front , the figure is estimated as being over one and a half million innocent people shot and buried...

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 69

Language : English

We Shall Not Die Now

סרט דוקומנטרי מאת אשטון גליקמן. הסרט מגולל את סיפורם של למעלה מעשרים וחמישה ניצולים, משחררים ומלומדים, וקטעי תמונות מאתרי המחנות בפולין, כולל אושוויץ וטרבלינקה.

Director : Ashton Gleckman

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 151

Language : German

Sobibor Excavated the 4 stages of deceit

סרט תיעודי. About 200.000 people were murdered in extermination camp Sobibor. After a revolt in 1943 the Nazi’s closed it down, covering up their killings with thick layers of earth and asphalt. What was left of the remains slowly sank into the ground and remained there for decades. Waiting to be excavated. Now, more than 70 years later Lies and Rudie struggle every day with the crimes committed in Sobibor. While the archeologists reveil it's misleading and treacherous character, layer by layer, we witness Lies and Rudie's attempts to get closer to their long lost loved ones.

Director : Mark Limburg

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 55

Language : German

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