Holocaust Video

Concentration Camp Near Tallinn (1944)
Description: Concentration camp in the village of Klooga north of Tallinn. Soviet authorities including an Orthodox priest view the charred remains of some 2,000 Jews, brought from Vilna and other places, shot and then burned on great bonfires they themselves had been ordered to build and light. Raw Film Footage.
Source: Russian State Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (2000)

Ordinary Fascism (1965)
Description: As captors of Berlin, and liberators of most of Eastern Europe, the Soviets held most of the record of the Holocaust. The German state proudly filmed the extermination of East Europe’s Jews by SS Einsatzgruppen. The murder of Eastern European Jews, the first stage of genocide, lacked the industrial precision that Auschwitz would later hold for Jews of the West. A coarse brutality characterized these paramilitary death squads, who killed by bullet, axe, rope or even bare hands. As director and narrator Mikhail Romm notes in his commentary to the German footage that comprise his documentary, the campaign dehumanized the killers as well as their victims.

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