City College Downtown: Global Narratives of Crime, War and Justice. (Day 4)
City College Downtown: Global Narratives of Crime, War and Justice. (Day 4)
The fourth class considers the impact of TV coverage and movies about the Holocaust and the pursuit of justice. The Eichmann TV program filmed the Jerusalem-based trial of Nazi SS official Adolf Eichmann, distributed the footage in 26 countries, and became the world’s first-ever documentary series. Its global distribution changed the way people saw the Nazi regime and how Holocaust survivors were perceived in Israel. Judgment at Nuremberg, which featured one of the world’s biggest movie stars, premiered in Germany on December 14, 1961; the following day Eichmann was convicted and sentenced to death by an Israeli Court. After this momentous event, the word Holocaust with the capital letter was used to label Nazi crimes against Jews. The 1978 miniseries Holocaust, starring Meryl Streep, consolidated the process.