Product Details

• 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: Arts Magic
• DVD Release Date: January 31, 2006
• Run Time: 59 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000CCD25Q
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,479 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Dachau was one of the worst and most notorious death camps and the scene of hundreds of medical experiments carried out on inmates. Initially filled with Communist and Jewish inmates, Dachau’s doors were soon opened to the many other “undesirables” that the Nazis wanted to eradicate. Between 1941 and 1942, over 500 horrendous medical operations were performed on healthy prisoners. In the last year of the war more than 40,000 prisoners perished in Dachau.

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was one of the first unofficial concentration camps established by the SA in 1933. The administration of the concentration camps was instituted in Sachsenhausen, a district of Oranienburg since 1936. The town was home to one of the largest concentration camps in the German Reich. The construction of the camp, the day-to-day life in it, and the suffering of the 20,000 prisoners from many countries are the subjects of this film.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Contains glaring factual errors, March 7, 2010

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Z Hayes (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holocaust - Dachau & Sachsenhausen (DVD)

I worked my way through these series of DVDs focusing on the infamous camps operated by the Nazis during WW II. In "Holocaust - Dachau and Sachsenhausen", the narrator states that Adolf Eichmann was the Commandant at Auschwitz! This is not true - Eichmann was never the Commandant at Auschwitz, he was the architect of the Final Solution, managing the herculean task of facilitating the transportation of millions of Jews to ghettoes and extermination/concentration camps throughout Europe. The most famous commandant of Auschwitz was Rudolf Hoss, who was eventually hanged for his crimes against humanity in 1947.The footage did not reflect anything new, as most of it has already been covered in other documentaries covering the Holocaust. The focus is more on the rise of the Third Reich and not as much on the camps themselves. Disappointing, rent if you must.

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Holocaust Dachau-Sachsenhausen, April 11, 2009

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Greg Saenz - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holocaust - Dachau & Sachsenhausen (DVD)

Very informative. I already knew the history, but I wanted a record of it. I am trying to collect all Holocaust DVDs I can to keep arecord for posterity. When I die I will donate them to my synagogue. I'm trying to find a DVD on Treblinka, but have not found one yet.
Thanks.

1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Holocaust-Dachu, July 15, 2009

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Liz Browning - See all my reviews

This review is from: Holocaust - Dachau & Sachsenhausen (DVD)

Very good movie of what happened on those concentration/death camps. And to think that it happened in our lifetime.