Actor Warwick Davis (Return of Jedi, Willow, Leprechaun, Harry Potter, Life’s Too Short) investigates the story of the Ovitz family (the only surviving family of Jewish little people entertainers from the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Germany) in the 2013 documentary The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz. Davis takes a look at the persecution (and eventual extermination) faced by those deemed undesirable by the Nazi German state (Jews, Romani, LGBT, little people, disabled people etc.), and tries to discover the story behind the Ovitz …
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Wols (A. O. Wolfgang Schulze), 1913–1951, was a German painter, photographer, and illustrator. He could’ve been a first string violinist, but took up photography as an apprentice instead. He lived in France at the turn of the century, but was put in an interment camp when World War II broke out. By 1940 he managed to flee the Germans several times before returning to France after the war died down. At that point he had already turned to alcoholism after repeated attempts …
Recently George Clooney wrote and directed The Monuments Men, a true story about a World War II platoon, requested by FDR, to go into Nazi Germany and recover artistic masterpieces. Clooney’s vision of the war story, from what I’ve heard, despite its low Rotten Tomatoes rating, is “engaging,” but restrained. The 2006 PBS documentary, based on the 1994 book, The Rape of Europa is ridiculous. Rejected by Austria’s top art academies, it portrays Hitler as a frustrated artist that sought to …
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