I just watched the Specialist, a documentary that shows a vast portion of the Eichmann trial. I got it from Netflix and found it quite good. I decided to look for it to purchase and see that the cheapest I can find it is $160 Anyone know why it is so expensive?
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I have never heard of it, is it actual footage of the trial? or recreation?Originally posted by PEB View Post
If it is a documentary of historical type aspirations sometimes the prices reflect that only a small run was produced. These things dont sell so well. They are made only for an academic market: library and college clientele and those things cost money.
Kind of like a Harvard university press book on the SS....almost no one on WAF will buy it...for various reasons we can all name.
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Eichmann Trial
Those making a documentary would have had a lot of material to work with. A great portion of the trial was televised and videotaped at the time for re-broadcast on American and other TV networks. NBC, in particular, did a documentary on the trial in 1961. A lot of it was shown on PBS a few years back. All of the trial was almost certainly recorded on audio tape.Comment
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The entire movie is actual trial footage. Based on the directors commentary, it seemed that they were trying to state that it was quite possible that Eichmann was a cog in the machine as he claimed.Comment
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I think the evidence that has come out since those years, including a taped interview Eichmann give to what he thought was a friendly journalist, in the late 1950's, and other testimonies, indcate that Eichmann was more than just a cog or order follower. In fact, he was ideologically driven and more than willing to take considerable initiative. The "cog in the wheel" argument was his trial strategy.Originally posted by PEB View PostComment
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