Paralyzingly horrific. Never forget.
While this footage is tough to watch for even a hardened veteran of gruesome images, it is essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand why it is so important to take a hard line against the forces in the world which seek to pull their fellow man apart with emotionless abandon, simply to see how she/he will react to the dismemberment. While scholars fetishize the term "banality of evil", what's on display here is the full gamut of evil from banal to stark raving horror-cakes and folks, it ain't pretty.
Possibly the most difficult footage for me to watch was a silent film clip of an S.S. doctor handling a child of around five or six years old, in a way that mimicked a father tossing his child around playfully. In fact at first it seems as if this child is laughing, but after a few moments you realize that the child is actually screaming in terror. This footage goes on and keeps getting worse. It was literally blood chilling for me and was terribly effective at...
The best nazi hunter documentary i've ever seen! Unreal footage!
This is the best nazi hunter documentary I have ever seen, hands down! The footage is incredible (and often poignant and sad of course), and of high quality. There is actual footage of the many nazi hunting trials, as well as with Simon Wiesenthal and Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, who are the most famous nazi hunters to have existed. The producers/directors did a great job documenting how many of these WWII criminals went into hiding, and how they were ferreted out. Absolutey RIVETING, to say the least! This is a 'must own' if you are a 'WWII buff', and/or wanting to add to your knowledge or collection of 'nazi hunters'.
High quality documentary; very graphic at times
I picked up this documentary for a fair price and was very glad to see i had not purchased a bunch of government archive films stuck together (for example, the nuremberg trials) with the narrator with voice that went extinct in the 1950's. It is well put together and follows through on its title as it details both the Klarsfelds (serge and beate) and simon wiesenthal's work in the decades since ww2. The film footage of the old men running down the street trying to get away from Beate Klarsfeld is out of the twilight zone - it is unreal. I do want to mention that this DVD is the most graphic i have ever seen and in my DVD collection that includes both ww1 and ww2, there is that nothing approaches footage of one collaborator's execution: tied to a chair, but with his back to the rifle squad, the top third of his head is taken of, but he remains upright. a priest walks by and looks into his head as blood pours as if out of a pitcher. all the while, soldiers are walking past. Also, the...
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