ID

FBW001005      Documentary

Country / Year

Great Britain, 1975

Original Title

GENOCIDE \\ THE WORLD AT WAR [NO. 20]

Directed by

Michael Darlow

Produced by

Thames Television, London

Staff

Producer: Jeremy Isaacs, Michael Darlow, Charles Bloomberg; Executive producer: Jeremy Isaacs (Gesamtserie THE WORLD AT WAR); Production manager: Liz Sutherland (Unit Director); Script: Charles Bloomberg, Jerome Kuehl; Camera: Frank Hodge; Editing: Peter Lee-Thompson; Music: Carl Davis (Archiv); Narration: Laurence Olivier; Historical consultant: Noble Frankland; Research: Raye Farr, Peter Rowe, Susan McConachy, Drora Kass, Isobel Hinshelwood (Stills)

Appearance

Heinrich Himmler (Reichsführer SS, Innenminister); Adolf Hitler; Hermann Göring; Adolf Eichmann (Head of the Judenreferat)

Statement(s) by

Karl Wolff (Heinrich Himmler's Adjutant); Wilhelm Höttl (SS Geheimdienst-Offizier); Avraham Kochavi; Rivka Joselewska; Primo Levi; Rudolf Vrba; Rita Boas Krupma; Richard Bock (SS); Anthony Eden (The Earl of Avon - Ehem. Außen- u. Premierminister); Dov Paisikowic

Length

50'

Format

16mm/farbe/1:1,37

Subject Terms

1920-1929; 1930-1939; 1940-1949; Auschwitz (Entire camp complex); Liberation of the camps; Dachau (Concentration camp); Survivors of the Holocaust; Extermination of the Jews; Camps; Lublin; Majdanek (Extermination camp); November pogrom; Genocide; Warsaw (Ghetto)

Holdings

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem; 16mm

Contents (detailed)

Shotlist (- ft):
- 005 CU: Gates of deserted concentration camp
- 026 Title and opening credits
- 061 Nazi Party Munich office 1929
- 064 Heinrich Himmler in office
- 071 Himmler with Adolf Hitler at military parade
- 080 Ex-SS General Karl Wolff talking about his recruitment
- 093 SS troops marching
- 099 Wolff talking
- 102 CU: Wolff in uniform
- 108 German procession in medieval costume with swastikas
- 124 CU: Himmler
- 127 Wolff talking
- 135 Germans skiing, Nazi troops and children eating
- 157 Racist propaganda film using animal examples
- 177 German youth doing physical training
- 194 Wolff talking
- 206 Hitler and Himmler taking salute at SS parade
- 228 SS oath-taking ceremony by torchlight
- 238 Wolff talking
- 242 SS marching
- 246 CU: Gates of Dachau
- 251 Camp prisoners (Stills)
- 273 Hermann Göring reading Nuremberg Laws in Reichstag, Hitler listens
- 292 Antisemitic cartoons
- 308 Schoolboys instructed in racism
- 319 Torchlight ceremony at Langfer Castle
- 344 Kristallnacht scenes
- 353 Stills of Jews being marched off
- 360 Refugees leaving Germany
- 369 CU: Adolf Eichmann
- 382 Wilhelm Hottl (SS) talking about Jewish emigration
- 403 Hitler denouncing Jews in Reichstag
- 414 Planes bombing
- 423 German troops marching past Hitler in Poland
- 433 Avraham Kochavi describing German arrival
- 443 Jews beaten up in street
- 459 Stills of public hangings
- 470 Refugees on road
- 480 Polish Jews wearing yellow stars
- 490 Jews digging ditches, filmed by German cameraman
- 505 Kochavi talking
- 514 Breadlines
- 528 Kochavi talking
- 538 German troops marching
- 555 Jews moving into ghettos with carts
- 584 Warsaw ghetto scenes
- 624 Public hanging taking place
- 635 Germans attacking Russia
- 644 Russian refugees on road and in camps
- 663 Wolff talking
- 666 Firing squads (Stills)
- 677 Rivka Joselewska describing mass shooting
- 691 Naked Jews (Stills)
- 701 Rivka talking, intercut with stills of naked Jews and dead bodies
- 782 Heinrich Himmler visiting concentration camp near Minsk
- 801 Wolff describing visit
- 809 Prisoners about to be shot (Stills)
- 814 Wolff talking
- 840 Prisoners being shot
- 867 Wolff talking
- 874 CU: Himmler
- 879 Wolff talking
- 884 Dead bodies
- 897 CU: Jewish population breakdown
- 916 CU: Eichmann
- 921 Jews in streets
- 927 Map showing concentration camps
- 961 Himmler at Auschwitz (Stills)
- 971 Crematorium plans
- 986 CU: Poison gas cans
- 1000 Jews rounded up
- 1015 Jews gathering for `resettlement'
- 1040 Jews getting into cattle cars
- 1059 Kochavi describing journey
- 1063 Cattle cars in motion
- 1069 Kochavi, intercut with shots of train
- 1114 Primo Levi talking
- 1122 Auschwitz (Stills)
- 1136 Rudolf Vrba talking
- 1170 Prisoners (Stills)
- 1143 Kochavi talking
- 1155 Prisoners (Stills)
- 1159 Rita Boas Krupman talking
- 1170 Prisoners (Stills)
- 1204 Vrba talking
- 1231 SS Lance Corporal Richard Bock talking
- 1239 Naked prisoners
- 1244 Bock describing gassing procedure
- 1314 Naked prisoners, slave laborers and electric-fence (Still) suicide victims
- 1354 Vrba talking
- 1398 AV: Camp
- 1405 Anthony Eden the Earl of Avon talking about Allied knowledge of camps
- 1423 Camps (Stills)
- 1435 Avon talking
- 1477 Warsaw ghetto scenes
- 1499 Scene from THERESIENSTADT. EIN DOKUMENTARFILM AUS DEM JÜDISCHEN SIEDLUNGSGEBIET (1944-1945 DE/CS / Kurt Gerron)
- 1518 Prisoners
- 1531 Dov Paisikowic talking about Auschwitz, intercut with stills of camp and crematoria
- 1693 Camp ovens. CUs: Surplus hair, artificial limbs, false teeth, and spectacles
- 1711 Lublin liberated by Russians
- 1717 Maidanek camp
- 1732 Paisikowic talking
- 1761 Explosions and railways dug up
- 1774 Himmler inspecting troops
- 1782 Hottl talking
- 1807 Camp survivors wrapped in blankets
- 1821 Russian soldiers examining remains, clothing, etc.
- 1837 CUs: Camp survivors
- 1872 Paisikowic talking
- 1882 Piles of dead bodies swept up by soldier driving bulldozer
- 1900 Concentration camp site today
- 1911 CREDITS
- 1971 ENDS
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem