Amazon.com: Originally a made-for-TV miniseries (that won a slew of Emmy Awards), this film follows parallel stories: those of a Jewish family in Germany from 1935 to 1945 and a German (Michael Moriarty) who rises in the Nazi ranks until he is overseeing the death camps. Genuinely haunting and truly sorrowful, this series was many people's first introduction to the impact that Hitler's Final Solution had on everyday Germans. Of course, it helps that director Marvin Chomsky had a cast that included Fritz Weaver, James Woods, Meryl Streep (who won an Emmy for her performance), and Ian Holm. Still, it is powerful storytelling in its own right. --Marshall Fine
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Rating: - Still a great mini series
I remember watching this when I was a junior high student. It was the first I had heard of the horrible fate of six million European Jews under Hitler's Nazi Europe. It was so moving and heartbreaking that I remember crying several times. When I visited the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C., one of the curators told me that this series really gave Americans their first realistic glimpse of Jewish life in Nazi Germany
I watched it again and was still incredibly moved. The Family Weiss is the story of many families in 1930's Germany, Josef, the kind hearted doctor, heads the ... Read More
Rating: - Holocaust
I watched this series when it first screened many years ago. It is as I remembered, well worth watching My only criticism is the accents. No effort appears to have been made to make the accents authentic, otherwise an excellent production. One would hope that the events portrayed are never allowed to happen again. Watching this series is very harrowing but very worthwhile.
Rating: - THE MINI SERIES ' HOLOCAUST'
I am a a student of history and militaria and first saw this programme whilst in hospital in 1978. When I saw the DVD was available and I had to obtain it for my library as it such a good production. I could finally 'pension off' my old VHS tapes.
That said, my complaint concerns the uniforms. The rank collar patches for some of the SS Officers, especially Heydrich, were incorrect and on one occasion an SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer [ Lt Colonel ] is referred to a Major [ SS-Sturmbannfuhrer ].
The black SS uniform was phased out in 1938 and replaced by the field gray to ... Read More
Rating: - Excelent quality but no subtitles
This TV series are a classical for those who collect material from the II World War and the Nazis Horror. The image quality is excellent, sound is mono aural and it comes exactly as it was aired with fades to black for commercials. The only thing I regret is that it doesn't comes with subtitles or close captioned for the hearing impaired.
Rating: - Holocaust DVD Review
I first saw this series as a 9 year old on TV in 1979 and I really loved it back than. At that age, most of the ideas of the series went straight over my head. I have seen the series on DVD in 2008 and this is really awesome. It's really worth watching. And also serves as a really good example of history coming to life on TV too.
Another thing. On TV, this series ran for 9.5 hours. On DVD (and VHS) it runs for 7.5 hours. The quantity 60 * 7.5 / 9.5 gives 47.4 . ie 47.4 minutes of TV show per hour and 12.6 minutes of adverts per hour. The legal maximum of TV adverts per hour is 13 minutes ... Read More
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