Using the eponymous 1978 bestselling book as its frame, THE MEANING OF HITLER is a provocative interrogation of our culture's fascination with Hitler and Nazism set against the backdrop of the current rise of white supremacy, the normalization of antisemitism and the weaponization of history itself. Shot in nine countries, the film traces Hitler's movements, his rise to power and the scenes of his crimes as historians and writers, including Deborah...

At age 98, director Arnon Goldfinger's grandmother passed away, leaving him the task of clearing out the Tel Aviv flat that she and her husband shared after immigrating from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Sifting through photos, letters, files, and objects, Goldfinger undertook the complex process of making sense of the accumulated ephemera of a lifetime. The result is a moving family portrait and an insightful look at the ways different generations deal...

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust, examines how the American people and our leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged our identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of our democracy.

"Verstreute Fußabdrücke waren wie heruntergefallene Blätter auf dem Boden zu sehen. Sie blickte hinunter in die Schlucht, und wieder füllte sich ihre Brust mit Angst. Eine Leiche lag still und regungslos im Gebüsch. Als Ruth Turner ins Büro des Sheriffs in Port Townsend im Jefferson County kommt und behauptet, ihre Schwester Ida Wheaton sei seit über einem Monat verschwunden, weiß Detective Megan Carpenter instinktiv, dass es sich hier um...