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The Last Days (1998)

Documentary | 87 minutes
3,72 80 votes

Genre: Documentary / War

Duration: 87 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: James Moll

Stars: Bill Basch and Martin Basch

IMDb score: 7,9 (6.431)

Releasedate: 23 October 1998

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The Last Days plot

"Everything you're about to see is true."

Five Jewish Hungarians tell about March 1944, when the Germans transported Jewish Hungarians to concentration camps. All five return to the neighborhood from their childhood where they have not been for over 50 years and tell detailed stories about their experiences during the Second World War.

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mrklm

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The ultimate document on the Holocaust is nature Claude Lanzmanns monumental masterpiece Shoah (1985). For those who have seen that epic documentary, there are few new angles here, although it remains interesting to hear from Holocaust survivors as well as an (acquitted) doctor who performed experiments in Auschwitz, as well as one of the few members of the Jewish Sonderkommando who saw the entire process around the gas chambers take place. The personal stories of the five people who are central are fascinating and their reunion with the concentration camp where they stayed, as well as with their parental home, provides some emotional moments, but James Moll also often falls back on the familiar archive footage. An excellent introduction for those who know little about the Holocaust, but no more than that.

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Movsin

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Shocking and moving testimonies about the horror of the concentration camps. Remarkable how the Hitler regime, even in the run-up to defeat, stuck to the extermination of Jews.

Of all the films and documentaries on this subject, this is one of the hardest.

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Fransman

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Yes, you will not watch this documentary with dry eyes. Although you did not hear or see anything new, the memories of the five Hungarians interviewed are impressive and make this documentary valuable. I wanted to see this documentary because I too have never understood how it was possible that at the end of the war the Germans, especially Eichmann, were able to transport and murder 435 thousand Hungarian Jews to mainly Auschwitz in a period of barely two months. This was partly possible due to the cooperation of Hungarian officials and the 'Arrow Cross', the Hungarian Nazis. Hungary was also a thoroughly anti-Semitic country, where the first anti-Jewish laws in Europe were issued in 1921.

On the other hand, it was also Miklos Horthy, the head of state, who intervened in May/June (too late) to stop the deportations and expelled Eichmann from the country. That was courageous because Hungary was already occupied by the Germans. It also prevented the 250,000 Jews from Budapest from being deported and the majority were saved. Partly due to the courage of Raoul Wallenberg and other volunteers. But back to the documentary, and the story that a woman told about her stay in Auschwitz and seeing her father for the last time there in a row, that goes through marrow and bone.

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