Frontline - Memory of the Camps

This is a PBS Home Video in a DVD, which is an outstanding production. I was an Officer is the USAF, and the Nuremberg Code of 1947 has been a special interest because of the matter of social eugenics with a doctrine of attrition (that is the "Final Solution" which the French coined the term"Genocide" for the Post World War II investigations regarding the Nuremberg trials. I have seen several documentaries. Frontline stands out among them for its emphasis on 300 concentration camps and the absurdity German populations did not know about them; they chose not to know.In addition, the Frontline program revealed Nazi SS Einsatzgruppen and Nazi SS Guards could not hide behind the explanation that they were just following orders. Some of the atrocities were addressed by the manner in which the Allies liberated the concentration camps and helped the confined populations. The compassion and extra care they provided to women - and especially the children who were still alive - were outstanding.One of the most atrocious incidents revealed was how the Nazi SS executioners ran out of Zyxlon B gas and threw children alive into the fire ofthe crematory furnaces?! Since I have received this DVD, I have shown it to families and individuals who doubted the barbaric savagery andexterminations of Jews and political prisoners. Not only Jews, but also political prisoners, clergy, the religious and others considered contrary to the Third Reich were murdered in those camps also. The Frontline DVD has re-affirmed my belief that Jesus Christ was a Jew. When a Jew is attackedI am attacked. When a Jew is murdered, that I am the subject of an attempted murder. The Frontline DVD affirms the standard what happened shall not be forgotten and there must never be another Holocaust!

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One of the episodes of World at War is entitled Genocide, and just shows pictures with the most minimal of words. Having seen other documenatries on the subject with more to say, it has continued to more powerful in its message as its so fundamental. As is this documentary, which features a minimilist script and a message more powerful than any long winded speech can give. I looked at these piled corpses, thinking that each of them had family and love and hopes and dreams and were cheated. The commentary is very telling too, the comment about the SS guards no longer looking so pristine, especially. Because there is so much horror, it's easy to shut it out as too much. But its simple commentary brings across the shock and horror and disbelief in the troops who first came on these places.What thest two documentaries share is being first genereation, no analysis, or revision, just viseral horror of the reality.I have read Liberators, America's Witnesses to the Holocaust, by Michael Hirsch, which describes in the same sort of stilted tones, the reaction of the boots on the ground to finding these horrors. Some of them are commonly known, but some not. The barn in Gardelegen is described in that, along with the reaction of the US troops who came upon it, and yet having read so clearly of it its different to see a picture. The townspeople were forced to dig grave for and bury each of the murdered in the barn.The closing words made me cry. But we've had Cambodia and Rwanda and Bosnia and so many other smaller replays it makes me wonder if we as human beings really learn. I will urge anyong who has only read of or seen heavily edited versions to see this and think on what human beings are capable of doing to one another.

I had seen several Dvds about the Nazi death/concentration camps, but the other programs did not prepare me for anything as graphic and disturbing as this. It is not for the faint of heart. I think it will be with me for a long time.There are scenes of thousands upon thousands of emaciated dead bodies being heaved into open pits and the mass graves being covered over by bulldozers. SS guards and German citizens were forced to do the dirty work, which was as it should have been. On and on it goes, from death camp to death camp. What I cannot imagine is how anyone who is sane could deny that the Nazis did this intentionally to the millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, communists, and others who were deemed inferior trash by the self-proclaimed "master race." But already new generations say yeah, yeah.In the 2000 election a man ran for the House of Representatives in my district, a man whose hobby was dressing up as an SS officer on weekends and participating in living history fun. Fun? I am ashamed to say that he received a thin majority in my county, although he was defeated by votes elsewhere. It was just a "hobby," some said in apologizing for his action. They should see this Dvd. Maybe it wouldn't make any difference to some, but perhaps a few would be touched by the horror of what the SS did.

My husband is a WWII history buff and has a number of books, videos, etc. I bought this DVD for Christmas for him, it looked like something he may not have seen before. I can't say it was enjoyable for him to watch considering the content, he did say he learned things he hadn't previously known. It is all actual footage and has very little narrative, nothing is interpreted. He said he was amazed how many camps Germany had, many more than one usually hears about. He was struck by how life went on as usual for the locals when in their back yard there was a concentration camp where people were tortured and died.Unlike some in this country that are trying to eradicate our nations history, we applaud the efforts of those that are preserving the horror of what man can do to man. We should never forget because "those that refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it". We should pray that we never again turn a blind eye because getting involved is not politically popular.

If ever there are any doubts about the Holocaust and genocide, then this is a DVD you must see for yourself, you will never forget it.First shown as a Granada (UK) documentary "A Painful Reminder" in 1985-thirty years after WWII.It's a tragedy the final reel of this masterpiece of truth went missing, I dread to think of it's contents, as this documentary footage is bad enough.Viewer discretion certainly required.

Documentaire en anglais seulement, commentaires et images faites lors de la libération des camps de concentrations nazi par des gens qui étaient présents. Pas recommandable pour les personnes sensibles.

Very well put together documentary. Sad part of history. I’m still trying to wrap my head around all the hate for jews. My heart breaks for all of the people effected during the halocaust and after.

Very good quality all over!

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