In the most intimate and direct film of his career, historian Simon Schama confronts the sheer scale of the Holocaust and the disaster endured by those who suffered through it.
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In the most intimate and candid movie of his professional life, historian Simon Schama grapples with the vastness of the Holocaust and the immense suffering endured by those it targeted. On a trek culminating in his initial journey to Auschwitz, Simon tours the Continent to examine how the Holocaust transcended being merely a Nazi fixation enacted in death chambers, but rather a pervasive continental crime involving collaboration. Starting with the shootings in his ancestral Lithuanian regions and moving to administrative actions in the Netherlands, he uncovers how long-held biases were exploited to incite communities against their Jewish residents. As a poignant discussion with a survivor demonstrates, the narrative of how 'wickedness advances gradually' retains considerable resonance in our present time.