Die Lüge und der Tod

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Status

Released

Production

DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme

Aired

1988-11-17

Die Lüge und der Tod

Together with Stephan Hermlin, H&S examine two five-minute film documents in this film, which were shot in 1941 on behalf of the Gestapo. The comparison with a written eyewitness account exposes the first film - "about the dazzling supply of food to the Jews" - as a propaganda lie, while the second - made 14 days later - conveys a complex picture of the Nazi extermination bureaucracy.