My Review and Thoughts:
Auschwitz Inside the Nazi State is a 2005 documentary
written and produced by Laurence Rees and narrated by Linda Hunt. This
documentary expresses the birth and the creation of the horrible disturbing
chilling inhumane creation of Auschwitz the extermination and the mass murder
genocide Camp.
Auschwitz started out as a Nazi labor camp to frighten the
Polish population but what it became was a thing of nightmares. A thing of true
horror. If Hell exist it was the gateway. The pit and the burning flame of hell
itself.
This is a six part series that ran on the BBC now it is
complete in the two disc set of over 300 minutes of color and black-and-white
footage. It examines the birth of this incomprehensible place. This is not just
a regular documentary or a six part show that you see on the television this is
an in-depth examination of this camp. It shows you from the beginning to the
end and everything in between all the horrors and leading up to what was to
come.
This showcases the shocking disturbing black-and-white film
footage of people being rounded up and sent to the camps. People being lead and
shot in pits of murder. It shows everything that needs to be seen by all
generations so that this does not ever happen again. It's part of history that
should always be on the minds of every living human being. This is an amazing
and filled with historical brilliance and controversy as you witness interviews
with actual camp survivors but most of all you witness interviews with the
perpetrators, the guards, those that rounded up innocent people to be
slaughtered.
What's amazing is the testimony itself, the raw emotion and
sometimes disturbing reality and watching the perpetrators talk about how it
was just normal. The disturbing reality that some of them don't even have
remorse or any emotional reaction to what they did. The documentary is built
from archive footage, dramatic recreations, key decision making moments and
through the testimony of survivors and those that were there.
This is a reality-based documentary one of the best I've
seen on the birth of Auschwitz camps. It showcases the suffering of victims. It
offers unique inside knowledge of this part of history. The documentary
showcases some of the most important figures in the creation of the final solution.
The creation of Auschwitz the commandant Rudolph Hoss the monster himself Dr.
Josef Mengele the beast and SS Cmdr. Heinrich Himmler the darkest of them all.
Lawrence Rees has written produced and directed one of the
greatest documentaries on the subject of Auschwitz. This captured a flawless
piece of history that should be seen through every generation it should be
showcased at school's, in discussion groups and history lessons. Another key
figure behind this documentary is the one-of-a-kind who I consider the master
of history is Prof. Sir Ian Kershaw. He was the consultant on the script for
the series. He is the key and award-winning biographer of Hitler if you need to
know anything about Hitler and the Nazi party it would be professor Kershaw that
you need to talk to.
Before this Laurence Rees and Kershaw worked on one of the
most extraordinary documentaries on the history of the Nazi party it was titled
the Nazis A Warning from History if you ever want to see a truly landmark
documentary you need to see the Nazis a warning from History. The next key
figure that needs to be mentioned in this documentary about Auschwitz is the
narrator Linda Hunt. Hunt is an amazing beautiful one-of-a-kind actress that
shines with her brilliant voice over. She gives such relevant dialogue, such
brilliant speech patterns as you witness this documentary on the screen. You
can't help but listen to her smooth soft emotional and historical sounding
voice which is mesmerizing as you witness the actions on screen
This is a must see, must own documentary. This is a film
that will remain in my conscience as a thought provoking and powerful teaching
tool on the horrors of human kind. War is horrible but when people and whole
nations decide to join in and to murder just because someone says so, it makes
it all the more horrifying and unbelievable.
Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, handicap and anyone that the
Nazi party deemed not worthy or pure in their eyes were slaughtered inside
Auschwitz.
Crying babies were smashed against walls to shut them up and
the children where led down that long path. Crying helplessly into the darkened
pits of so called showers. They cried for mom, they searched for dad they
wondered about sis or brother. There tummies hungry and their mouths dry. Their
eyes wide with fear. They wondered what maybe time to play or a good meal was
next, Maybe dad and mom was on the other side of the showers. They entered the
doors and undressed and followed the commands of those in charge in hope that
what they were doing was right and yet all they got was coughing. There small
lungs closed. Gasping. Watered eyes and the forever reach to exit. They fall
silent into the chamber of slaughter. There resting place. A spot in history
known as Auschwitz.