To demonstrate that each Holocaust concentration camp was different from all the others, and to show what some of the major camps were like, these documentaries take advantage of seldom-seen footage from various sources—from the Russian and American liberators, from the Nuremberg trial, from Berlin's Chronos film archive, and even (in the case of the Theresienstadt "show camp") from Nazi newsreels. Viewers see, for instance, the construction of Sachsenhausen, one of the earliest camps; how Dachau, initially filled with Communist and Jewish political prisoners, changed its mission to the eradication of all sorts of "undesirables"; and Majdanek, the only camp still in operation when liberators arrived. Warning: extremely graphic. Mature students. Color and black-and-white. Approximately 53–60 minutes each. Ryko. ©2005–08.
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