40 years Ago was broadcast for the first time, the American four-part-series “Holocaust” on German television. The series led to mixed feelings for the German viewers.
Never before in the history of television, the Federal Republic of Germany a series of severe reactions. In January 1979, thousands of agitated viewers called in to the stations: Some were crying, others cursing, and wanted to re-justify the other for what they had done between 1933 and 1945, or left. Has triggered the Holocaust, the turmoil of emotions, the charisma of the American fourth splitter “”.
The series tells Know the fictional history of the Berlin family. Father Joseph is a medical doctor and experienced on the own body, such as the harassment of the Nazis cut off the Jews more and more the air.
in Parallel, the series portrays the career of Erik Dorf, the rising unemployment lawyers for the highly efficient organizer of the Nazi extermination machinery. Josef Weiss and his family were deported to Poland, and eventually die in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
Suddenly part of the German history
television viewers, who saw in 1979, the series, the movie pictures up today in my head: “I have learned in school, a lot of it, but still, this was yet again a lot closer.” Another man told that it was a Surprise to him, because his parents had never told him something: “all of a Sudden it was in the room, with the question of who had put the children to their parents: What did you do actually in time? Suddenly, this question was for me in the family present. Suddenly that was a part of my history that, in Germany, mass arrest of the Jews were destroyed.”
The series “the Holocaust” tells the story of White, the fictional story of the family.
it is Interesting to know that before 1979 no shortage of exhibitions, teaching materials, and television documentaries about the crimes of the national socialists. Those who had sought for years in vain to bring a public discussion about the guilt of the perpetrators and the responsibility of bystanders, reacted with harsh criticism to the series: Too much Kitsch, too much feeling. The Film will make people cry, not to Think.
filmmakers have kept to the facts
Who can “wonder sees the Holocaust” today, once again, such reservations only. Despite the sentimental Details, the filmmakers stick to the facts and try the historical events as accurately as possible.
TV-series “Holocaust” and confronted the Germans with their past
Silke Lahmann-Lammert, DLF
22.01.2019 09:49 PM
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