Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"
Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"
Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"
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2022
0h 58m
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Overview

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?

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Philipp Moog

Self - Narrator (voice)

Philipp Moog
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Christopher R. Browning

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Hilary Earl

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Stefan Klemp

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Stefan Kühl

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Harald Welzer

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Benjamin Ferencz

Self - Jurist

Benjamin Ferencz
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Markus Friedmann

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Markus Friedmann
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Philine Conrad

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Roman Boeer de Garcez

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Roman Boeer de Garcez
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Johnny Engelmann

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Andreas Heine

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Sönke Hünding

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Max Jundt

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Christian Kemmling

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Waldemar Müller

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Michael Nowak

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Paul Pfeiffer

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Tino Ruhlig

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Erik Schwarz

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Frank Stüdgens

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Frank Stüdgens
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Marc Wehner

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Alexander Wilczek

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Otto Ohlendorf

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Dina Pronicheva

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Julius Wohlauf

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