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Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' (2005)
Directed by Catherine Tatge, Laurence Rees
Overview
An in-depth visual and verbal account of one of the most notorious episodes of World War 2. Using location shots and combining CGI, for a 3-D realism, this is a documentary, through a timeline, showing its conception, ideals, horrors and liberation of the Death Camp that is Auschwitz and its role in “The Final Solution”. Using reconstructions of key events by actors playing major Nazi hierarchical roles and real interviews from parties of all sides; ex-prisoners, old Schutzstaffel (SS) members and witnesses. Using archive footage conjoined with reflective, contemporary imagery it is a vivid and thorough historical telling of the atrocities of a political ideology that gave nothing but fear and death.
Length 285 minutes
Actors
Horst-Günter Marx | Samuel West | Linda Ellerbee | Gordon Newell