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Am Grossen Wannsee - The Wannsee Recordings

In this documentary, Israeli and German musicians perform the works of Jewish composers as well as others at the villa where infamous Wannsee conference took place.

Director : Emre Amram Sonmez

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 81

Language : English, German, Hebrew

The Wannsee Сonference - Eleven Million Jews Sentenced to Death

On January 20, 1942, eleven million Jews were sentenced to death at a villa in Wannsee, Berlin. Heinrich Himmler, head of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) invited the state secretaries of the most important German government ministries to discuss and coordinate the implementation of the final solution. This documentary explores Hitler's political rise to power in 1933, the neutralizing of his opponents, his political aims, and his fixation with the elimination of the Jews. Including archival documentation and Historical commentary.

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 51

Language : Dutch, English, German

Europe under the Swastika - Cities and Stations

This documentary begins with quotations from Elvira Bauer's anti-Semitic children's book. There is a description of Auschwitz. Stalls of hair and gold teeth are taken from the victims prior to cremation. It was filmed by the Red Army as they entered Auschwitz.

Director : Roman Brodmann

Production Year : 1982

Duration : 43

Language : German

The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45

This Oscar nominated documentary serves not only as a remembrance but a lesson and a warning for the future. It follows the plight of Europe’s Jews during the terrifying period from 1933 until the final defeat of the Third Reich in 1945. Never before had the world seen such contempt for human life on such a grand scale, the murder of an estimated 6 million Jews, with countless others persecuted. During the 1930s a wave of national fervour swept through a tumultuous Germany; people looked for answers, and the politicians were all too willing to point the finger of blame towards the Jewish population. Few, if any,...

Director : Dieter Hildebrandt

Production Year : 1980

Duration : 82

Language : English

Healing by Killing

Documentary film that deals with the place of the medical system in Nazi Germany in the extermination apparatus. Filmed in Germany, Austria, Poland, and Russia, the film includes archival photographs, expert commentary, interviews with survivors of euthanasia operations and present-day photographs of locations where the events took place.

Director : Nitsan Aviram

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 90

Language : English, German

Conspiracy

Dramatic re-enactment of the Wannsee Conference, a meeting that took place on January 20, 1942 with the participation of the directors of government ministries and some heads of the SS, for the purpose of discussing the necessary actions in carrying out "The Final Solution" and its coordination. The film tries to describe the course of the meeting in which the details of the "Final Solution" were agreed upon, a meeting that took place in a regular and relaxed manner. The film, produced jointly by the American cable network HBO and the BBC, won a number of international awards and favorable reviews.

Director : Frank Pierson

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 99

Language : English

Hitler's Holocaust - Decision

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...

Director : Maurice Philip Remy

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 43

Language : German

Hitler's Henchmen - Eichmann, The Exterminator

Documentary film that deals with Adolf Eichmann a central figure in the organization of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Problem". The film describes Eichmann's path in the Nazi party, his activity in the Austrian Nazi party, his various posts until his specializing in the area of deportations, his activity in the years of the war, his place in carrying out "The Final Solution", his escape to South America, his life in Argentina, his capture by agents of the Mossad and his trial in Jerusalem. Includes archival films, interviews and testimonies.

Director : Guido Knopp

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 52

Language : German

The Specialist - Portrait of a Modern Criminal

Film based on original documentation of the Eichmann Trial and edited by Ayal Sivan, an Israeli director who lives in France, in a way that seeks to express a principal position: Eichmann was only a gray and banal official and his Jewish victims did not do everything they could to resist annihilation. The result is "The Specialist", a film which serves the principal position behind its production through manipulation of pictures, voice and tendentious editing.

Director : Eyal Sivan

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 129

Language : German, Hebrew

Hitler's Assistants - Freisler the Executioner

Documentary film about Roland Freisler, a Nazi judge. The film describes his activity as president of "The People's Court", his participation in the Wannsee Conference, the justice system of the Third Reich, significant trials he handled, among others, the trial of the resistance movement "White Rose" and the trials of the conspirators of 20 July 1944, the heavy sentences he imposed, the way he handled trials, his death in an allied aerial bombardment.

Director : Guido Knopp

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 52

Language : German

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