Using audiotapes from the Auschwitz Trail, intermixed with archival footage and photographs, Verdict on Auschwitz is an illuminating historical document and a damning indictment of the people who perpetuated those horrors.
Using audiotapes from the Auschwitz Trail, intermixed with archival footage and photographs, Verdict on Auschwitz is an illuminating historical document and a damning indictment of the people who perpetuated those horrors.
Even if you have seen all the other Holocaust documentaries or visited the memorial museums, there is still more to be learned here about Auschwitz and post-war Germany.
The filmmakers want to cover all aspects of the individuals involved and the film sometimes digresses into side cases. Yet, as history goes, it is hard to present such an important event without showing the monumental evidence.
Not a pleasure to watch, but informative &successful at detailing an event that is quite well known, but perhaps not well enough felt&feared by those not directly affected.
... filmmakers Rolf Bickel and Dietrich Wagner provide a deconstruction of the mechanics of life at Auschwitz so exhaustive, it would make Claude Lanzmann proud.
... in the wake of the sectarian lynching that was the execution of Saddam Hussein, a film like Verdict on Auschwitz takes on a particularly strident aura of necessity.
After just coming back from Auschwitz, this film is even more powerfuland disturbing. Hate and ultimate power invite ultimate corruption and cruelty. Wholesale murder, torture and dehumanization of the victims under the guise of patriatism and honor are the sadists' excuses.
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