Holocaust - 15/59

"Holocaust" (1978) mini-series. Directed by Marvin Chomsky. With 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. Filmed on location in Germany and Austria, Holocaust uses the stories of these fictional families to portray the atrocities against the Jewish people from the 1930s to 1945, and presents a heart-wrenching portrait of their struggle.

This is the anniversary edition released in the U.S. and Canada in 2008.

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[PeachyBumEmi]

That is the most horrific thing i have ever seen. Why would you do such a horrible thing.

Somebody please help me out with understanding this.

Holocaust was series not a film?

Another thing i dont get is that you can watch 1 clip but then the next clip doesnt follow on. We seem to miss bits.

[kiwikatzkatz]

Yes, it was a television miniseries, not a film.

You're not missing bits - that's the way the series was made. It intertwines different stories and goes back and forth between them.

[EmiiBabe]

Right ok. That's helped my understand it abit better. So do we not see what happens. Coz i think its something like 11/59 where Meryl's character goes to see her husband but then that man takes advantage of her. Do we not see what happens to her, coz it finishes just as he stats to undo her clothes.

[kiwikatzkatz]

No, it's implied, not explicitly shown. :)

[bandibreath]

The old saying was true then and is still true today, "in order for evil to flourish, good men stand by and do nothing."

[KatieDerry]

I Caint Believe Things Like This Happend :(

Im Am So Gratefull For Being Born In The 190s I Wouldnt Of Been Able To Cope With Things That Were Going On Like That

Im Soo Gratefull For All The Soldiers And People Wo Servived These Things :D

I Would Never Of Been ABle To Do What Them Men Did :(

Great Show Thoe :D

[Joebunkyss1]

@chripto, ask a fireman

[christo930]

I don't see how this synagogue burning could actually work. There were so many people in the building and the building had to lose structural stability before even 1/4 of them burned or suffered smoke inhalation and with the building so closed up with only the broken windows to supply oxygen, I think most would have gotten out alive.

[Cassandra1821]

@abyliz2000 Because after WW2 many Nazis were reinstated into high powered positions all over Europe

[Cassandra1821]

@ossymos It depends how you define “ a generation”. But – how many Orthodox Jews 70 years or older do you see nowadays in Central Europe ?

[Cassandra1821]

@hjb103055 For most of us, watching these events from historical and emotional distance, the enormity and the implications of these cruelties are just beyond comprehension .... but these are just details from a mass drama that took place in Europe, only 70 years ago.

[hjb103055]

@Cassandra1821 Watching these young men just watch the temple burn down with people inside makes me wonder what they were really like before the war started and what kind of men they would have become before there was Hitler. I always wondered that.

[Cassandra1821]

@PeachyBumEmi "Why would you do such a horrible thing" ?? Well, my dear, the answer is given in this clip. The SS acted brainwashed in their mission of “isolating the germ carriers”. And – ever read about massacres on Christians in churches – mainly in Africa and Arab countries? Happening n o w, whilst we have the privilege of watching these events from a distance.

[RobbTZombie]

@PeachyBumEmi Keep in mind most of germany thought they were winning WW1 even the troops on the front they were so far in france the crested a hill and could see the Eiffel Tower. Almost the next day they jews surrendered. So when hitler came around he was able to use the loss of ww1 and the "weakness" of germany and place all the blame on the jews and ta-da you have the makings of the worst genocide in human history.

[RobbTZombie]

@PeachyBumEmi When WW1 ended the german generals in charge of germany at the time sent the civilian government to surrender for germany. Coincidentally a good portion of the civilian government were in fact jews. So as a cause of the british blockade in place preventing food coming into the country and the depression that was spawned from the treaty of versailles. All of germany was then lead to believe that as a cause of the jew surrendering germany to the allies came there depression.

[Sageykinsful]

@laserthebeam2 hell yes. i would die for them i was just making an observation c: