Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"

Jan 25, 2022

0h 58m

★ 7.4

Overview

Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police battalions, whose members shot men, women and children, day after day, obediently, as if it were a normal job, a fact that is hardly known today. Who were these men and how could they commit such crimes?

Genres

Documentary

History

Production Companies

Broadview TV

ZDF

Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" Trailers

Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Philipp Moog

Self - Historian

Christopher R. Browning

Self - Historian

Hilary Earl

Self - Historian

Stefan Klemp

Self - Sociologist

Stefan Kühl

Self - Social Psychologist

Harald Welzer

Self - Jurist

Benjamin Ferencz

Reenactment Performer

Markus Friedmann

Reenactment Performer

Philine Conrad

Reenactment Performer

Roman Boeer de Garcez

Reenactment Performer

Johnny Engelmann

Reenactment Performer

Andreas Heine

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6.6

The Last Train

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6.3

Mr. Kingstreet's War

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A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the waterholes.

6.6

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5.5

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6.4

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7.0

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Upon Canada's entry into World War II, the RCMP rounded up thousands of people it considered fascist sympathizers. Among them, 700 Italian-Canadians were held for up to three years in internment camps. None were ever charged with a criminal offence.

7.2

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5.3

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6.9

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

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10.0

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In Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS. He then took refuge in the Great Mosque of Paris. The imam decides to protect him by passing him off as a Muslim, as well as the other Jewish children that he manages to free with the help of the resistance networks. The French militia and the Gestapo have suspicions... This fiction film is based on the true story of the rector of the Paris mosque, Si Kaddour Benghabrit, who saved several Jews from deportation during the Second World War.