Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust


Final Solution \\ The World at War. D: Darlow [GB, 1975]

ID

FBW001048      Documentary

Country / Year

Great Britain, 1975

Original Title

The Final Solution \\ The World at War

Directed by

Michael Darlow

Produced by

Thames Television, London

Staff

Producer: Michael Darlow; Executive producer: Jeremy Isaacs (Gesamtserie THE WORLD AT WAR); Production manager: Liz Sutherland; On-screen commentary: Eric Porter

Appearance

Adolf Hitler; Alfred Rosenberg (Nazi party ideologist); Heinrich Himmler (Reichsführer SS, Innenminister); Hermann Göring; Hans Frank (Generalgouverneur des Generalgouvernments); Rudolf Höss (Auschwitz commandant); Adolf Eichmann (Head of the Judenreferat)

Mentioned

Karl Wolff (Heinrich Himmler's Adjutant); Ernst vom Rath (Embassy staff member in Paris); Reinhard Heydrich (Head of SS security department)

Length

660,2 m / 60'

Format

16mm/farbe/1:1,37

Abstract

An expanded version of the Genocide episode from the series THE WORLD AT WAR, dealing with the entire history of the Nazi plan for extermination European Jewry.

Subject Terms

1930-1939; 1940-1949; Book burning; Dachau (Concentration camp); Extermination of the Jews; Prisoners of war; November pogrom; Nuremberg Laws; Oswiecim; Oswiecim-Brzezinka; Warsaw (Ghetto)

Holdings

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem

Bibliography

- Skirball, Sheba F.: Films of the Holocaust. An Annotated Filmography of Collections in Israel. New York, NY: Garland, 1990

Contents (detailed)

Shotlist (- ft):
Part 1, Reel 1:
- 016 Credits
- 022 Auschwitz
- 096 German soldiers back from front, WWI
- 123 Demonstrations in the Weimar Republic
- 137 Young Adolf Hitler in Munich
- 144 Map of projects of the Third Reich
- 159 Publication of the labor party manifesto
- 164 Publication of the race law
- 181 Alfred Rosenberg (Nazi party ideologist)
- 188 Street scenes of Jewish town in East Europe
- 211 Shows in Germany
- 224 Hitler at Nazi parade
- 232 Heinrich Himmler in the beginning of his career
- 241 Nazi parades attended by Hitler and other party officials
- 261 Sequence from BERLIN ZUR KAISERZEIT. Unemployed people
- 281 Demonstrations and riots in Weimar
- 293 Karl Wolf (officer in Kaiser's and later in Hitler's army)
- 316 Nazi parades and symbols
- 333 Still Hitler with Paul von Hindenburg
- 334 Nazi party celebrate their coming to power
- 339 Hitler, Hermann Göring and others forming a government
- 353 Opponents arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps.
- 364 Persecutions against Jews
- 381 Zigmund Vertliner (Member of the Warsaw Jewish council)
- 391 Burning of the books
- 415 Karl Wolf (Heinrich Himmler's Adjutant) (still). Nazi parades (intercuts)
- 448 Sequence from film BLUT UND BODEN
- 468 Hitler visiting the countryside
- 474 Propaganda film on the natural selection and race tests
- 518 Goering proclaiming the Nuremberg laws
- 525 Racism taught at school
- 528 Himmler visits home for illegitimate children of SS members
- 540 Hitler and Himmler at SS parade intercuts Wolf speaking
- 587 Children visit archeological museum
- 594 Bad Töltz SS officers academy, Himmler on a visit
- 634 Dachau 1934 - 1938
- 661 Torch parade
- 674 German troops march into Austria and Czechoslovakia
- 679 Adolf Hitler making speech in Linz, Austria
- 684 Reinhard Heydrich (still) (Head of SS security department)
- 687 Funeral of Ernst vom Rath (Embassy staff member in Paris),
- 697 Kristallnacht
- 700 Concentration camp
- 717 Jewish immigration from Germany to Palestine in the 30's
- 744 Hitler making speech in the Reichstag on the Jewish issue
- 751 ENDS
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Part 1, Reel 2:
- 014 Propaganda film on mentally disturbed people
- 047 Reichstag meeting after the invasion into Poland
- 061 German forces invasion into Poland
- 086 Persecutions of Jews in Poland
- 178 Hans Frank arrives in Poland
- 187 Persecutions and executions
- 226 Migration of population in the divided Poland
- 244 Karl Wolf speaking
- 256 Jews being marked by the yellow star
- 270 Forced Jewish labor
- 276 German filming Jews
- 285 Street scenes of the Jewish section
- 301 Moving into the Warsaw Ghetto
- 328 German troops fighting in Europe
- 348 Passport control
- 358 Dutch Jews speaking
- 380 Scenes of the Warsaw Ghetto
- 409 The Jewish council
- 420 Jewish policemen arresting children smuggling food.
- 433 Int: Jail and execution
- 444 Child dancing to get food
- 446 Child smugglers caught by the Germans
- 452 Scenes of the Ghetto intercuts survivors speaking
- 487 German troops fighting in Russia intercuts Russian POW`s
- 509 Rosenberg arriving to Riga, Latvia
- 519 Russians sent to forced labor
- 542 Himmler arriving to Russia intercuts Russian POW`s
- 571 Executions
- 581 Pinsk Ghetto survivor speaking
- 683 Jewish forced labor
- 689 CREDITS
- 693 ENDS
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Part 2, Reel 1:
- 012 Credits
- 024 Heinrich Himmler in Minsk intercuts executions
- 155 Extermination of the mentally disturbed
- 212 Rudolf Höss (Auschwitz commandant)
- 222 Himmler visits the camp
- 249 Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich watching military training
- 276 Adolf Eichmann
- 279 Sequence from DER EWIGE JUDE /1940 DE / Fritz Hippler)
- 310 Jews wearing the yellow star
- 326 Deportations run by Jewish administration
- 410 Scenes of the Warsaw Ghetto
- 433 Deportations and selection intercuts survivors speaking
- 661 SS Corporal Boech speaking
- 722 ENDS
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem