Product Details

• Actors: Simon Wiesenthal
• Directors: Irmgard von zur Mhlen
• 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
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: ArtsmagicDVD
• DVD Release Date: May 30, 2006
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000F48DDM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #136,370 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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HOLOCAUST:LIBERATION OF MAJDANEK - DVD Movie

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars too much to assimulate, November 1, 2008

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Kermit L. Cain (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holocaust: The Liberation of Majdanek (DVD)

Although I am going to force myself to view the entire series (there's a complete set that covers each or many of the camps) so it will all be burned into me I had to stop watching after 20 minutes or so because it's raw footage, not "cleaned up" or sanitized.
I'm a two tour FAC in 'nam veteran and spent 31 years in the service, used to seeing things the the "real world" is never subjected to but the overwhelming and incredibly .... guess what? There are no words to convey what you will see - the brain refuses to acknowledge man's inhumanity to man when taken to this extent. Just buy them all, store them if you must and when someone claims it never happened taking one out and show it - and know that it did happen and history has a way of repeating itself.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Though the subject is compelling, the quality of restoration leaves much to be desired, March 7, 2010

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Z Hayes (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holocaust: The Liberation of Majdanek (DVD)

Part of a series focusing on the camps run by the Nazis during WW II, "The Liberation of Majdanek" recounts the atrocities committed by the Nazis at Majdanek, the only operational concentration camp at the time of its liberation. Located near Lublin, Poland, 2 million people were murdered at this Nazi extermination camp. Though the subject is compelling, the production quality leaves much to be desired. Firstly, the narrator uses a dull, monotonous voice without much emotion at all. A lot of the archival footage (I believe this was shot by the liberating Red Army forces) is dark and shaky. This production could have used better restoration.

There is some compelling footage here, including one of survivors facing the Nazis at a Russian tribunal. I wish there had been contemporary interviews with survivors, and historians' perspectives of the camp, especially since Majdanek is not covered as widely as other extermination camps like Auschwitz and Dachau.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars bad bad bad quality, December 13, 2009

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Charles W. Interrante - See all my reviews
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Look i have seen what the people went through as a own many of these films,but the quality of this is so bad they should not be allowed to sell it.True nobody forced me to buy it but i have many films about the Holocaust that have been restored to good quality.This is not one of them.