Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"

Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"

2022 · 58 min · DE · R · 7.4 (48 votes)
Dir. Manfred Oldenburg · Starring Philipp Moog, Christopher R. Browning, Hilary Earl, Stefan Klemp, Stefan Kühl, Harald Welzer · Music Stefan Ziethen
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Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police battalions, whose members shot men, women and children, day after day, obediently, as if it were a normal job, a fact that is hardly known today. Who were these men and how could they commit such crimes?

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This is a profoundly unsettling and intellectually rigorous examination of unimaginable atrocities. It feels like a chilling descent into the psychology of perpetrators, demanding sober reflection on human capacity for evil. The experience is grimly educational, leaving a lasting, heavy impression.

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