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Auschwitz - Inside the Nazi State
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790715513
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790715511
Label: BBC Warner
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Hungarian (Original Language), Polish (Original Language),
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
MPN: DE2113D
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Running Time: 300 minutes
Studio: BBC Warner
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Editorial Review:
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 Höss, 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent!
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, ... Read More
Rating: - Amazing!
This was sometimes difficult to watch but it was an amazing job and documentary of a difficult subject.
Rating: - Unforgettable.
I rented this video from the library and it has to be the greatest film ever produced about the Jewish holocaust by the Nazis. You cannot understand WWII or appreciate the valiant efforts and victories of that war unless you understand Auschwitz.
From the original design and layout of the camps, to the coerced cooperation of other European nations to give up their Jewish population, to the development of the poisonous gas, to the invasion of the Red Army and the subsequent trials and punishment ... Read More
Rating: - A riveting series that explores Auschwitz and the Nazi implementation of the Final Solution
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State makes for compelling viewing. It is divided into 6 chapters. The first chapter is titled "Surprising Beginnings" which basically introduces us to the origins of Auschwitz and how it was not initially designated as an extermination camp for Jews, but basically to house Polish political prisoners and later Russian POWs. In fact, the first gassing experiments in the camp were targeted at the Russian POWs.
In the second chapter "Orders and Initiatives", we learn of ... Read More
Rating: - Birth of a Death Camp
One of the most comprehensive documentaries about Auschwitz, "Auschwitz = Inside the Nazi State" is a recreated story of the birth of this factory of death. Using actors and computer graphics, as well as the documentary footage, the documentary follows the idea of Final Solution from its inception to its death. Narrated by Linda Hunt, the film transports the viewer to this most horrible of times in the twentieth century.
There are many films, both documentary and dramatic, about the Holocaust, ... Read More
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