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How a TV show starring Meryl Streep changed Germany: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

How a TV show starring Meryl Streep changed Germany: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

Update: 2023-02-19
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In the late 1970’s, the American TV mini series “Holocaust” was broadcast in West Germany, and immediately took over the public discourse. For many younger Germans, this was the first time they’d seen the Jewish victims of the Nazis depicted on screen. It began an unprecedented period of reckoning in Germany, where the word ‘Holocaust’ was not widely used before, and where the horrific crimes of the past were in many ways swept under the collective rug.

Featured guests: Actor James Woods; filmmaker Avi Nesher; professor emeritus Moshe Zimmerman, history department of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

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How a TV show starring Meryl Streep changed Germany: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

How a TV show starring Meryl Streep changed Germany: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

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