Product Details

• Directors: Irmgard von zur Mühlen
• Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Arts Magic
• DVD Release Date: September 13, 2005
• Run Time: 53 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000AA4FCE
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #33,480 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Shot by the Soviet cameraman attached to the 1st Ukrainian front, this documentation, used by as prosecution evidence at the Nuremburg War Crime Trials, records the plight of the remaining 6,000 prisoners, the instruments of torture, the remains of the dead and the closing of Auschwitz.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The horrors of Auschwitz as witnessed by its liberators, January 20, 2009

By	z hayes (plano,texas) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This film basically consists of black and white film footage captured by Capt Alexander Vrotsos who was part of the Soviet film crew attached to the First Ukrainian Front in 1945. When the Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp, they witnessed the horrors of the camp - emaciated survivors who resembled walking corpses, mounds of human bodies, the crematoria [which the Germans had tried to destroy, but still yielded plenty of evidence pointing to their atrocities], the belongings of Nazi victims who had been gassed/shot/incarcerated and many other horrors.

There's no music accompanying this film, just a monotonous background narration in a matter-of-fact manner - perhaps this was apt considering nothing could offset the horrors presented on the screen. The horrific images of the horror that was Auschwitz has been seen many times before, in other films/documentaries etc, and I think that "Holocaust: The Liberation of Auschwitz" portrays this well. However, it could have done with some extra features, such as the background history of the camp, as well as some history as to what happened to some of the infamous SS personnel associated with the camp [hence my 4 out of 5 star rating].

10 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but the usual stuff, August 2, 2006

By	M. Davis - See all my reviews

It's an OK documentary but it delivers up the usual fare, not a lot of stuff you havn't already seen.

6 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Auswitz how evil can Man be, May 25, 2007

By	Paul A. Smit (Bedfordview, Gauteng South Africa) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Having toured Poland 2 years ago brought back the dreadful day I experienced while I was in this place of mass murder.