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Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"

Documentary · History

Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"

7.4(48) 1/25/2022 0h 58m
DocumentaryHistory

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?

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Top Cast

Philipp Moog

Philipp Moog

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Christopher R. Browning

Self - Historian

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Hilary Earl

Self - Historian

SK

Stefan Klemp

Self - Historian

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Stefan Kühl

Self - Sociologist

HW

Harald Welzer

Self - Social Psychologist

Benjamin Ferencz

Benjamin Ferencz

Self - Jurist

Markus Friedmann

Markus Friedmann

Reenactment Performer

Directed by

Manfred Oldenburg

Production

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BornKnight

8/10

1/4/2024

Interesting and sad documentary about the Einsatzgruppen (firing squads) of Germany's WWII, that was considered as a privileged group as they didn't had to go to the fronts, instead of the Wehrmacht (war forces). Seeing by a group of german psychologists and american lawyers, they didn't know at first what they would had to do in the future, and it wasn't an obligation - but those who recused were ostracized by the companions. An american lawyer, Benjamin Ferencz, was one of the wisest lawyers that I've seen he insisted on the Nuremberg Trials, and proved they albeight of the crime being committed they were common man, many of middle class education and professions that thought this was the best for the country as they were following orders and even the relate of one of the command

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