Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution Season 1 (2005)

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution Season 1 Episodes

S01E01· 2005-01-11· 60m

Surprising Beginnings

This episode sets the stage for the series and examines the radical increase in violence against all opponents of the Nazi state. In particular, it explores the German army's invasion of the Soviet Union during the summer of 1941 and connects this campaign to the first gassing experiments in Auschwitz, Poland, which were aimed at Russian prisoners of war, not Jews.

S01E02· 2005-01-18· 60m

Orders and Initiatives

Laurence Rees continues his documentary history, marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, with an account of how the Nazis developed their ""Final Solution"". By 1942, Rudolf Hess had established the camp as a place to murder thousands of Jews, Slavs, Roma Gypsies.