Auschwitz - Inside the Nazi State
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Actor: Gordon Newell (II), Samuel WestDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Hungarian (Original Language); Polish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 300 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Movie Reviews of Auschwitz - Inside the Nazi State
Movie Review: Excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars
My wife and I watched this from the comfort of our home. Several months later we lived it in the sweltering July heat inside the reconstructed barracks at Auschwitz. We walked through the infamous Birkenau gate. We walked the entire path from where the trains arrived to unload their human cargo to the remnants of the furnaces where they were all murdered.
We toured the offices and barracks at the main complex of Auschwitz and saw the mountains of pots & pans, prosthetic devices, suitcases, etc. I think that I was able to grasp a minute slice of the horror that these poor souls lived with but was not prepared when we entered another room a saw a room of children's shoes. We left the building and did not return. We had seen enough.
We are glad that we were able to watch the DVD prior to our trip to Auschwitz. It helped to prepare us but....
Summary of Auschwitz - Inside the Nazi State
More than any previous documentary about the Holocaust, Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State reveals the inner workings of the Nazi implementation of Hitler's infamous "final solution." Drawing on the latest academic discoveries, this remarkable BBC series presents a wide-ranging, meticulously researched biography of the titular "killing factory" and its evolution into a highly efficient location for industrialized extermination of well over one million Jews, gypsies, and other so-called "mongrel races" between 1940 and 1945. From "Surprising Beginnings" to "Liberation & Revenge," the six-chapter program chronicles the gradual process that escalated into the Holocaust, focusing its expansive European timeline on the detailed movements of preeminent (and highly corruptible) Holocaust engineers like Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf H?ss, and "death doctor" Josef Mengele. Through painstakingly authentic reenactments of crucial meetings including the Wannsee Conference (where the "final solution" was secretly devised), we see and hear the Nazi thought processes, built on virulent hatred and bigotry, that "justified" mass murder on an unprecedented scale.Subtle but exacting use of computer-animated effects allows three-dimensional exploration of newly discovered architectural plans and buildings long-ago destroyed, revealing the transformation of Auschwitz as World War II progressed. Along with rare archival footage, thorough documentation, and frank testimony from Holocaust survivors and Nazi perpetrators (not all of them penitent about their crimes), these programs make expert use of commanding narration by Oscar?-winning actress Linda Hunt, who brings depth and gravitas to a grim litany of sobering facts and figures. The result is an all-encompassing portrait of Auschwitz unlike anything seen before, masterfully written and produced by Laurence Rees with equal parts tenacity, intelligence, and integrity, informed by an overriding sense of moral outrage that is entirely appropriate to the history being examined. It's a remarkable achievement, as important as Shoah as a definitive exploration of one of the darkest chapters in human history. --Jeff Shannon
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