holocaust

On September 25, 1944, shortly after the ground fighting reached German soil for the first time, Adolf Hitler ordered the formation of a Volkssturm, or People's Army. Hitler's decree automatically made every semi-healthy male civilian between the ages of sixteen and sixty a member of the new force.

The title of this book was inspired by a historical event known as the Wannsee Conference. These "learned men" who gathered around a table and sipped brandy as they planned the annihilation of a people were laden with credentials. Graduates of the best universities in Central Europe, they were - by all usual standards - highly intelligent and quite successful pillars of their community.

Examines the groundbreaking Nuremberg Trials. Beginning with Vietnam's My Lai Massacre , the video reviews the disputed conviction of Lt. William Calley, then explores the heated trial of concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk.

On November 8, 1942, Nazi soldiers rounded up the Jews living in a shtetl, a small village, in Bransk, Poland, and ordered the town's farmers to provide horse wagons to transport them to a nearby train station. Within 24 hours, 2500 Jews from Bransk died in Treblinka's gas chambers. Their shtetl died with them. A haunting account of the tragedy and its legacy emerges as townspeople from Bransk and Polish Americans, both Jew and Gentile, share their pohotographs and stories. Today in Bransk there are no Jews and many residents choose to forget. Interviews in America with immigrants from Bransk create a vivid portrait of a lost community and continuing conflict over who should take responsibility.

In 1941, the German army invaded the small town of Eishyshok, Poland (now Lithuania) and brutally murdered nearly all 3,500 Jewish residents. Fifty-six years after the massacre, There Once Was a Town chronicles the remarkable journey of four of the town's survivors and their families as they return home.

An inspiring story about Luba Tryszynska who single-handedly saved 54 children from the Nazis during the Holocaust. Features interviews with Luba as well as surviving children.

Over half a century after their imprisonment, veteran Allied P.O.Ws (as well as some of their German guards) return to Colditz to reveal the daring schemes and ingenius devices that helped over 300 prisoners attempt breakouts.

Testimonies - some of the earliest ever recorded - and rare archival footage reveal the Nazi era through the memories of those who were there: a Hitler youth, a Jesuit priest, resistance fighters, death camp survivors, American POW's, liberators.

Based on a true story; Kellie Martin and Marion Ross star in this inspiring tale of a young Polish girl who hides a Jewish family from the Nazis during the war.

An army of malcontents and right-wing extremists is growing in Germany. Signs of party abuses are re-occuring today. Will history be allowed to repeat itself?.