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In reply to the discussion: Have you ever seen "Schindler's List?" [View all]BigmanPigman
(51,773 posts)from 1979? Meryl Streep was in it. When it was seen in Germany a ton of Germans were not aware about what really happened. It was a learning experience for the country.
Holocaust was watched by an estimated 120 million viewers in the United States when it was first broadcast in 1979.
"The series has been widely credited with bringing the term "Holocaust" into popular usage to describe the extermination of the European Jews.
In 1979, Holocaust was broadcast in West Germany, where it was watched by an estimated 20 million people, then 36% of the nation's television-owning population. Later that same year, the West German parliament removed the statute of limitations on war crimes. The series is credited with educating many Germans, particularly what was then the younger generation, about the scale of common people's participation in the Holocaust.[Der Spiegel stated that Holocaust "managed to do what hundreds of books, plays, films and TV broadcasts, thousands of documents and all concentration camp trials in three decades of postwar history had failed to do: to inform Germans about the crimes committed against the Jews in their name in such a way that millions were shaken."
On its fortieth anniversary, in January 2019, the series was rebroadcast on German television, in connection with Alice Agneskirchner's documentary, How the Holocaust Came To TV, which described the impact of the broadcast on the original German audience. A survey at the time showed that fewer than half of all German school children had any knowledge of the Auschwitz concentration camp."
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