Auschwitz was about the Jews, review of HBO’s ‘Night Will Fall’

WASHINGTON POST
by Jeffrey Salkin
January 27, 2015

…“Night Will Fall” is simply devastating. There is no way that the eye can “un-see” what it portrays. Nor can the mind “un-know” why Allied cameramen filmed their visual records in the first place — prophetically, to bear witness against the day when people would come to deny that it ever happened. Except for one thing. “Night Will Fall” spoke of “prisoners,” ‘’inmates,” ‘’victims.” But who were they? It takes an hour for “Night Will Fall” to get around to uttering the word “Jew” — and when it comes, it is from the lips of a Jewish survivor. READ MORE

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