Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
1999; Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20
Angaben zur Quelle:
17,2 (2002) 114-127
Keywords:
Knopp, Guido,
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Holokaust (Television program)
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Documentary television programs
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
Abstract:
Acknowledges that Guido Knopp's six-part documentary TV-series "Holokaust" is based on two years of thorough historical research and brings much new photographic material and fresh testimony of contemporary witnesses. Criticizes the melodramatic mode in which this material is presented; for instance, the failure to put photos in their correct context (e.g. when the text speaks of the burning of the synagogue in Białystok, the photo shown is of the synagogue in Riga); the even-handedness in the treatment of victims and perpetrators: all are survivors of seemingly the same dehumanizing trauma; and the message (made explicit by scriptwriter and director Maurice Philip Remy in the production's Web site) that not the trauma is the end, but reconciliation and love.
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