The Nazi Holocaust Videos and Movies

In the Holocaust era, countless ordinary people acted in ways that aided and hindered the persecution and murder of Jews and other targeted groups within Nazi Germany and across Europe.

On September 13, 2017, the Museum hosted a discussion to answer one of the most vexing questions of the Holocaust: How Did Ordinary Citizens Become Murderers?

Former New York Times reporter and award-winning author Ralph Blumenthal moderated this program with two noted scholars:

Dr. Christopher Browning, Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Dr. Wendy Lower, Acting Director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and author of Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

BECOMING EVIL: HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE COMMIT GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITY...
Bristol Community College 2 Oct 2019 (1.07.18)

Mass atrocities happen because individual humans choose to kill other individual humans in large numbers and over an extended period. Who are the killers on the frontlines of genocide and how do they come to do such extraordinary evil?

Drawing from over two decades of archival study of Holocaust perpetrators and face-to-face interviews with over 225 rank-and-ﬁle perpetrators from Latin America, the former Yugoslavia, Africa, and Northern Ireland, Historian Dr. James Waller will focus on the ordinary origins of these killers and the processes by which they become capable of such atrocities. Understanding these processes can be vital to resolving current conﬂicts as well as preventing the future occurrence of genocide and mass atrocity. Sponsored by the Bristol Genocide and Holocaust Center.

THE HOLOCAUST (THE SHOAH)
ROOTS OF NAZI IDEOLOGY
Yad Vashem 2016 (11.00))
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THE NATURE OF NAZI IDEOLOGY
HSC Modern History
Atomi 2019 (9.20)
In this video we look at Nazi ideology, or what the Nazi Party believed. We cover the
political, economic, military and social ideology
that underpinned the regime.

ANTISEMITISM AND NAZI RACIAL IDEOLOGY
Yad Vashem 2012 (1.21.34)
The 8th International Conference on Holocaust Education Telling the Story: Teaching the Core -- Holocaust Education in the 21st Century

HITLER AND THE DECISIONS
FOR THE FINAL SOLUTION
Christopher Browning 2015 (57.56)
Co-presented by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University.
Historians have long debated Hitler’s role in the decision-making process that led to the Final Solution. Christopher Browning will consider documents that came to light after the fall of communism and the opening of East European archives in 1989. He argues there were two incremental decision- making processes. The first, which reached closure in July 1941, sealed the fate of Soviet Jews, while the second (October 1941),
sealed the fate of European Jews.

HITLER'S PLACE IN HISTORY
Professor Ian Kershaw
Dafydd Humphreys 2017 (59.47)

THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE
Dr. Kenneth Hanson 2017 (21.40)
On Jan. 20, 1942, a conference was convened in a Berlin suburb, in a place called Am Grossen Wannsee. Adolf Hitler did not attend, but it's clear that the “Final Solution” wasn't conceived at Wannsee. The order was Hitler's, and Hitler's alone. He gave it. He was the motivating factor. How early was his actual intent to implement genocide? That’s the lingering question, addressed
in this dynamic episode…

THE PARTICIPANTS:
THE MEN OF THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE
MuseumJewishHeritage 2017 (56.24)
On January 20, 1942, an infamous meeting of high-ranking members of the SS took place in Berlin-Wannsee. Who were the 15 men who attended the meeting, and what connected them? Authors Dr. Hans-Christian Jasch of the Memorial of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin and Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller of the Jewish Museum Berlin reveal their stories, discuss their post-war fates, and examine the ways in which
this meeting is understood
in present-day Germany.

DIE WANNSEEKONFERENZ (1984)
The American Patriot (1.24.40)

A real time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which leading SS and Nazi Party officials led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich gathered to discuss the
"Final Solution to the Jewish Question".

RICHARD BREITMAN
ON THE ORIGINS OF THE FINAL SOLUTION
Fox News 2015 (22.62)
(story of James Grover McDonald)
Page: The Nazi ' Final Solution'
to the 'Jewish Problem'

THE KILLING FIELDS EINSATZGRUPPEN -
THE "OTHER" HOLOCAUST
2012 (7.43) Alley Cat
Page: Einsatzgruppen -
SS paramilitary death squads

WHEN CANADA SAID NO:
THE ABANDONED JEWS
OF THE MS ST. LOUIS,
Holocaust Task Force 2012 (17.15)

THE ACCIDENTAL UNIVERSITY:

INTERACTIVE TEREZÍN

THE DEFIANT REQUIEM FOUNDATION

Videos Terezin

Page: Red Cross Holocaust Inspection Visit to the Theresienstadt (Terezin) "camp-ghetto"

THE REAL LIFE STORMTROOPERS - HITLER'S SECRET POLICE
Red Baron, 2018, (49.23)

UNDERSTANDING
THE JEWISH RESISTANCE
DURING THE HOLOCAUST:
PROBLEMS OF CONTEXT AND CHRONOLOGY
Boston University
Steven J. Katz, 2007 (53.11)
Page: Jewish Resistance
During the Holocaust

LESSON STARTERS - THE HOLOCAUST
EdChat™ TV 2013 (18.33)
Page: Responsibility

EINSATZGRUPPEN
robgangi 2015 (27.24)
Page: Einsatzgruppen -
SS paramilitary death squads

Editors Note: In December 1941, in Constanta, Roumani 767 Jews boarded the Struma for Istanbul in Turkey, apply for visas to Palestine, and then sail to Palestine. The Struma was unsafe and overcrowded, and lacked adequate sanitary facilities. Despite engine problems, it reached Istanbul on December 16, 1941. There, the passengers were informed they would not get visas to enter Palestine and, furthermore, would not be permitted entry into Turkey.

WHY DID THE HOLOCAUST HAPPEN?
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dr. Peter Hayes: 2017 (1.21.42)

On January 17, 2017 historian Peter Hayes spoke at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to discuss his new book, "Why? Explaining the Holocaust." In his book, Hayes addresses what scholars know about the Holocaust, and answers important questions including: Why were Jews the primary victims? Why were Germans the instigators? Why did murder become the "Final Solution"?
And, why didn’t the international community
do more to help?

THE STRUMA- A NEVER ENDING SADNESS
Ariella Zman, 2010, (7.36)

THEOLOGIANS UNDER HITLER
Timeline - World History Documentaries
2018 (55.59)

In the days after World War II, a convenient story was told of church leaders and ordinary Christians that defied the Nazis from the beginning. Recent research has uncovered a very different story. Rather than resisting, the greater part of the German church saw Hitler's rise in 1933 as an act of God's blessing, a new chapter in the story of God among the German people.

This film, based on groundbreaking research, introduces the viewer to three of the greatest Christian scholars of the twentieth century: Paul Althaus, Emanuel Hirsch, and Gerhard Kittel, men who were also outspoken supporters of Hitler and the Nazi party. In 1933 Althaus spoke of Hitler's rise as "a gift and miracle of God." Hirsch saw 1933 as a "sunrise of divine goodness." And Kittel, the editor of the standard reference work on the Jewish background of the New Testament, began working for the Nazis to find a "moral" rationale for the destruction of European Jewry.

This provocative film asks: how could something like this happen in the heart of Christian Europe? Could it happen again? How does the scholarship of this period affect the church today? Does the church of today retain the ability to recognize profound evil?

HOLOCAUST DENIAL

WHY DO PEOPLE
STILL DENY THE HOLOCAUST?
Test Tube News (3.40)
Page: Denial of the Jewish Holocaust

WHY DO PEOPLE DENY
THE HOLOCAUST HAPPENED
AND WHO DENIES IT OCCURRED?
Denying History, 2015 (1.21.12)
Page: Denial of the Jewish Holocaust

MY COURTROOM BATTLE WITH A
HOLOCAUST DENIER
Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt
TEDxSkoll 2017 (15.54)

BEHIND THE LIES OF HOLOCAUST DENIAL
Deborah Lipstadt
TEDX 2017 (15.30

DENIAL Official Trailer (2016)
Rachel Weisz, Andrew Scott Movie
15 Jun 2016 (3.05)
Page: Denial of the Jewish Holocaust

HOLOCAUST MOVIES on YOU TUBE

Wannsee Conference Movie (German with English subtitles.
See also ‘Conspiracy’ in Trailers below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYdIfOkpMos

Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) Prosecution of members of the Nazi party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxxoHuKD7AM

The Diary of Anne Frank (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qV9iv4r4pE

Life is Beautiful (1997) Jewish Italian father and his family sent to a Concentration camp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDQ3YjX4j4o

Shoah (1985) 9 hour French classic in French/German/English the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JugpUcwQe3I
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rEAIG1jzbY

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) The story of a student and her brother arrested by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets (Oscar nomination. Winner of other awards)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXtC08tWxqA

The Boy In the Striped Pajamas (2008) The child of the Camp commandant and a Jewish prisoner become friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iddalc2whgw

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985)
Two brothers, one in the SA, the other in the SS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq3FJqy7w1A&list=PLXP--KfaEF5DjVBLXdUxWkkrbP9nffvhl

Escape From Sobibor The mass escape of 600 prisoners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L0e3_6_0nw

The Relief of Belsen Belsen as the British fought typhus, starvation and their own humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atD-zqSpsNo

Twist of Fate (1989) An attempted assassination plot against Hitler sends an SS officer into hiding as a Jew (thanks to plastic surgery and false papers) in a concentration camp. After the camp is liberated, he joins the Zionist army in their fight for Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4itK3USShA

The Odessa File 1974 Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former SS captain, who allegedly commanded a concentration camp during WWII.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8GrU111BeE

The Relief of Belsen 2007 (TV Movie) With the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, safety did not come to its 60,000 prisoners right away. Starring Iain Glen, this award-winning movie recalls the actual events that transpired at Belsen as the British fought typhus, starvation and their own humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atD-zqSpsNo

Playing for Time (1980) (TV Movie) In World War II, the Jewish French musician and cabaret singer Fania Fenelon Goldstein is sent by the Nazis from Paris to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The guards take her clothing and luggage and they cut her hair very short. One day, when she is very weak, she hears someone asking whether any prisoner could sing Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly and she joins the group of musicians that have been spared from the gas chambers to entertain the Nazis performing music for them. She convinces the conductor Alma Rose to invite her friend Marianne, telling that she would be a talented singer. Along the years of abusive treatment, they survive but losing their
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBwTpRi_C8

Lebensborn (‘The Spring of Life’) (1980) Czech (English subtitles) a little-known operation of the Nazi SS, started just before the outbreak of World War II. Through the careful selection and re-education of young women, it was the Nazi's mad dream to create an Aryan 'master race'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdDDOFXPEqMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdDDOFXPEqM

Fatherland 1994 HQ Fictional historical account of what might have happened if Adolf Hitler had won the Second World War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpvAdeAv8KI

It Happened Here -1964 The Story of Hitler's England
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89aL6ys1k9c

MINISERIES ON YOUTUBE

Holocaust: Stories of the Family Weiss (1978) .Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky - Starring: James Woods, Meryl Streep and Michael Moriarty.

"Holocaust" follows the tragedy and triumph of the Weiss family of Berlin and intertwines their fate as European Jews with the story of a German family, the Dorfs, whose members include a high-ranking Nazi officer. Uses the stories of these fictional families to portray the atrocities against the Jewish people from the 1930s to 1945

TRAILERS ON YOUTUBE

Die Wannseekonferenz (1984) A real time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which leading SS and Nazi Party officials led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich gathered to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question".

Conspiracy (2001) A dramatic recreation of the Wannsee Conference where the Nazi Final Solution phase of the Holocaust was devised. (See Wannsee Conference Movie video above)

Voyage of the Damned The MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner with 908 Jewish refugees from Germany denied entry to Cuba, Canada, and the United States. Finally accepted in Europe it is estimated that approximately a quarter died in death camps. The subject of a 1974 book, Voyage of the Damned It was adapted for a 1976 US film of the same title and a 1994 opera titled "St. Louis Blues" by Chiel Meijering.

Denial (see Official Trailer (2016) and summary above. Rachel Weisz, Andrew Scott

Europa Europa (1990) A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

The Pianist (2002) Polish pianist attempts to elude the Nazis

Night and Fog (1955) Film of still standing camps made in 1955

Schindlers List(1993) A Nazi businessman who shielded 1,000 of his workers from the Nazis

The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Archival footage and 1969 interviews of a German officer and collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand

Come and See (1985) After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against the Germans.

The Counterfeiters (2007) The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII.

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List of Holocaust Films (from 1940’s on) Wikipedia

The Most important Holocaust Movies and Documentaries IMDb

Film and the Holocaust The National Holocaust Centre and Museum

List of Holocaust films Wikipedia

The 50 Most Moving Holocaust Films IMDb

Top 10 Holocaust Films - YouTube

Films on the Holocaust - Yad Vashem

Holocaust documentary whose horrors remained unseen reaches cinemas – after 70 years - The Guardian

Auschwitz Documentary KrakowCard.com

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DENIAL

Based on the acclaimed book
"History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier,"
DENIAL recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt's (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz)
legal battle for historical truth against David Irving
(Cannes Award winner Timothy Spall),
who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier.
In the English legal system, the burden of proof is on the accused, therefore it was up to Lipstadt and her legal team to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust occurred.
Also starring two-time Academy Award nominee Tom Wilkinson,
the film is directed by Emmy Award winner Mick Jackson ("Temple Grandin")
and adapted for the screen by BAFTA
and Academy Award nominated writer
David Hare (THE READER).
Producers: Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff1