Part 3 has the third Reich plan of the final solution goes into function. Dorfman and the S S decide to build a full scale industrial genocide. Every dollar, and every ounce of energy was decided for the most efficiency of the camps. The officers realize how barbaric the final solution is and try to hide threw propaganda means with a propaganda camp for the Red Cross. Karl is sent to the propaganda camp with the depravity of an officers deal with Karl's wife. How depraved those times were. The Warsaw ghettos occupants start to realize what is happening with the final solution, as the Jew's rebel. The viewers experience the thoughts, anxieties of the characters. Many in the ghettos' residences use humor to cope. The crassness, and the brutalities of the S S bothers some, like the priest who spoke out who just disappeared. Destruction which is cruel hits the mark of insanity! The directing, acting and budget make for a memorable installment. 7 stars.
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A fine continuation to the excellent mini-series.
planktonrules29 September 2013
You may want to note that although the show was listed as occurring in four episodes, on the DVDs, they are actually five. So, a tiny portion of the prior episode actually was included in episode three when the show originally aired.
This episode's theme is the liquidation of the Jews. It begins with death squads very inefficiently rounding up Jews on the Eastern Front and killing them. However, Himmler and the other scum who ran the SS demand it be done on a larger scale and more humanely. So, they did experiments with carbon monoxide and the main character featured in this episode is Dorf. In addition, much of the show is about Rudi and his girlfriend--their lives together once they joined the partisans as well as their marriage. While only occupying a tiny portion of the show, Karl is transferred to Theresienstadt and the Dr. and Mrs. Weiss continue their lives in the ghetto.
Once again, this is a brilliant episode of an amazing mini-series. Finely acted and written.
This episode's theme is the liquidation of the Jews. It begins with death squads very inefficiently rounding up Jews on the Eastern Front and killing them. However, Himmler and the other scum who ran the SS demand it be done on a larger scale and more humanely. So, they did experiments with carbon monoxide and the main character featured in this episode is Dorf. In addition, much of the show is about Rudi and his girlfriend--their lives together once they joined the partisans as well as their marriage. While only occupying a tiny portion of the show, Karl is transferred to Theresienstadt and the Dr. and Mrs. Weiss continue their lives in the ghetto.
Once again, this is a brilliant episode of an amazing mini-series. Finely acted and written.
Talking about the final solution as if they were planning to open a summer camp.
mark.waltz21 May 2022
Warning: Spoilers
The scene where David Warner discusses how they will exterminate the Jews is one of the toughest moments in this five-part miniseries. He talks about how the work camps will simply exhaust them to death and those who survive will be taking care of in a different way. Just like creating the work schedule for the week. But the Jews from all over Hitler dominated Europe intend to fight this as long as they can, given the presence of an underground press getting out leaflets to every community including the ghetto in Warsaw. As for Joseph bottoms, he finds temporary happiness with a spur-of-the-moment wedding to Tovah Feldshuh, the best partner that any rebel on the run could meet up with. Forging for food in the woods consists of digging up weeds with the hope of finding turnips. As usual, there's the march of nude men being escorted to their execution, and it's obvious that those ones are lucky because their death will be quick.
As Rosemary Harris said in an interview about the making of this mini-series, they knew they were making something very important because it was history, and not entertainment. That quote is never more evident than the middle of the series itself, because like a pyramid, this has risen to the height of the Nazi atrocities, and even knowing what will happen in the last year which takes place after this segment ends, that doesn't change the fact that the world has been turned upside down by the evils and even with infighting among the Nazis, that will continue long after the war is over. Even though there have been films before about the Nazi atrocities, "Holocaust" was the first film to really go into detail about what went on behind the scenes and inside the camps, and in this episode, we haven't even gotten there yet.
As Rosemary Harris said in an interview about the making of this mini-series, they knew they were making something very important because it was history, and not entertainment. That quote is never more evident than the middle of the series itself, because like a pyramid, this has risen to the height of the Nazi atrocities, and even knowing what will happen in the last year which takes place after this segment ends, that doesn't change the fact that the world has been turned upside down by the evils and even with infighting among the Nazis, that will continue long after the war is over. Even though there have been films before about the Nazi atrocities, "Holocaust" was the first film to really go into detail about what went on behind the scenes and inside the camps, and in this episode, we haven't even gotten there yet.
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