Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" (2022)

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Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" (2022)

R 09/13/2023 (US) Documentary, History 45m

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Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police battalions, whose members shot men, women and children, day after day, obediently, as if it were a normal job, a fact that is hardly known today. Who were these men and how could they commit such crimes?

Manfred Oldenburg

Director, Writer

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Philipp Moog

Self - Narrator (voice)
Christopher R. Browning

Self - Historian
Hilary Earl

Self - Historian
Stefan Klemp

Self - Historian
Stefan Kühl

Self - Sociologist
Harald Welzer

Self - Social Psychologist
Benjamin Ferencz

Self - Jurist
Markus Friedmann

Reenactment Performer
Philine Conrad

Reenactment Performer
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A review by BornKnight

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Written by BornKnight on January 4, 2024

Interesting and sad documentary about the Einsatzgruppen (firing squads) of Germany's WWII, that was considered as a privileged group as they didn't had to go to the fronts, instead of the Wehrmacht (war forces).

Seeing by a group of german psychologists and american lawyers, they didn't know at first what they would had to do in the future, and it wasn't an obligation - but those who recused were ostracized by the companions.

An american lawyer, Benjamin Ferencz, was one of the wisest lawyers that I've seen he insisted on the Nuremberg Trials, and proved they albeight of the crime bein... read the rest.

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