Geronimo1967
Using archive sourced from Berlin, Paris, Washington and London this is quite a comprehensive and harrowing documentary depicting the rise of the Nazi party in Germany and the ultimate decimation of the Jewish, Romany and homosexual populations in the ever increasing expanses of Europe that Adolf Hitler ended up controlling. From his vaguely democratic legitimacy in the 1930s when the ageing President Hindenburg agreed to suspend the Weimar constitution, the writing was soon on the walls for those who did not confirm to the Arian societal norms. The imagery here illustrates really effectively the gradual encroachment of the state into the lives of those whom it determined to ostracise and persecute, and whilst some were able to make good an...