Shoah.

[feldpost 58]

Hi,

Had this long (4 DVD's) documentary on the holocaust for several years, but have not watched it as a complete show due to work etc.
Lying on the couch with a broken finger, watched it in it's entirety this week.
A long haul, (550 minutes) with no WW2 documentary footage - just witness interviews and contemporary scenes.
A very powerful and dramatic recounting of the "Final Solution" as proposed by the Nazis.
Surprised that this documentary has not been discussed on the forum before, as it was released in 1985 and has received almost every award there is for a documentary film!
Any thoughts?

Best wishes,

John.

[IanC]

Hi John,

I remember watching it on TV during the late eighties and although that was the only time I have seen it, I can still picture the interview with the barber in his shop as he got more and more upset as the interview progressed as well as the grainy black and white footage of one of the camp guards describing his duties.

As you say a very powerful documentary and recommended to anyone interested in the subject.

Cheers

Ian

[feldpost 58]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the comment!
The barber was one of twenty who cut the womens hair whilst they were actually in the gas chambers.
He was originally tracked down by the film director walking into every barber shop in Brooklyn New York, and asking information on his whereabouts by asking other barbers if they knew him.
When finally found, he agreed to appear in the film, but when the director finally got round to filming him some eighteen months later he had moved to Israel.
The director had to go half way round the world again to finally get these very moving scenes described by a witness of the final minutes of thousands of peoples lives.
Scary to think that some people deny that the holocaust ever happened, and has all been invented by anti-German elements or whatever.
The films taken at the time,, the witness testemony; TR paperwork etc cannot have been faked by anyone.

Best wishes,

John.

[IanC]

Thanks for the information on the barber John, I had no idea what lengths the director had gone to find him. Well worth it in my opinion.

Cheers

Ian