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Genocide Nazi racial theory, an ideology that captivated millions of Germans in the 1920s and 30s, was translated into concrete policies by Heinrich Himmler, who created the SS. Once the Nazis came to power, the concept of the Aryan "master race" was taught in classrooms throughout Germany. The doctrine was implemented in anti-Jewish laws and actions and, ultimately, the Final Solution, in which the Jewish population of Nazi-occupied Europe was systematically deported and murdered. This program, narrated by Laurence Olivier, traces the role of the
demonization of the Jews in the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. Using
archival footage, much of it shot by the Nazis, as well as testimony from the
Eichmann trial, the film follows the systemized antisemitism of the Nazis from
its formation to the end of the war. In grim, graphic images and
straightforward narration, it sets out the events that define its topic. While you watch, consider . . .
•How Nazi policy against the
Jews was realized in three main phases: isolation, ghettoization, and
extermination. •The participation of vast numbers of people, not only in Germany but in countries allied with and occupied by the Nazis, in the implementation of the Final Solution. This title is distributed by the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University (http://www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm or http://www.jewishfilm.org). Other films of interest:
Witnesses to the Holocaust: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann Narrated by
Joel Grey, this documentary presents excerpts from the most dramatic of the
trials of former Nazis. Now. . . After All These Years nterviews with the residents of Rhina, a German town that had a large Jewish population before World War II.
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