History Series / Holocaust

* BlackSheep[=/=]WhiteSheep:
** Inga comes from a family of Nazis and anti-Semites, yet she is HappilyMarried to the Jewish Karl and devoted to her in-laws.
** Dorf's Uncle Kurt is this to a lesser extent, as he works in the camp trying to keep as many Jewish people alive as possible.

''Holocaust'' is often viewed as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts to ''Series/Roots1977'', being another historical miniseries that attempts to depict a well-documented atrocity of the recent past viewed through the eyes of a family living through it, and even featuring some of the same crew, most notably director Marvin J. Chomsky. The series has also been widely credited with bringing the term "Holocaust" into popular usage to describe UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's attempted extermination of the European Jews.

Taking place over a ten-year span from 1935 to 1945, the series tells the story of two German families. One is the Jewish Weiss family, consisting of patriarch Josef Weiss, his wife Bertha, and three children (Anna, Rudi, and Karl) as well as Karl's gentile wife Inga. The other is the Dorf family, consisting of Erik, Marta, Peter, and Laura. Unable to find work as a lawyer due to economic problems, Erik Dorf joins the SS, and goaded on by his ambitious wife Marta, rises through the ranks to help plan out UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.

''Holocaust'' is widely viewed as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts to ''Series/Roots1977'', being a historical miniseries that attempts to depict a well-documented atrocity of the recent past viewed through the eyes of a family living through it, and even features some of the same crew, most notably director Marvin J. Chomsky. The series has also been widely credited with bringing the term "Holocaust" into popular usage to describe UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's attempted extermination of the European Jews.

''Holocaust'' is widely viewed as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts to ''Series/Roots1977'', being a historical miniseries that attempts to depict a well-documented atrocity of the recent past viewed through the eyes of a family living through it, and even features some of the same crew, most notably director Marvin J. Chomsky. The series has been widely credited with bringing the term "Holocaust" into popular usage to describe UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's attempted extermination of the European Jews.

''Holocaust'' is a 1978 American television {{miniseries}} written by Gerald Green, directed Marvin J. Chomsky, and featuring a cast headed by Creator/JamesWoods, Creator/MerylStreep, and Creator/MichaelMoriarty. It was originally shown on Creator/{{NBC}} in four parts from April 16–19, 1978.

''Holocaust'' is a 1978 American television {{miniseries}} written by Gerald Green, directed Marvin J. Chomsky, and featuring a cast headed by Creator/JamesWoods, Creator/MerylStreep, Creator/MichaelMoriarty. It was originally broadcast on Creator/{{NBC}} in four parts from April 16–19, 1978.

''Holocaust'' is a 1978 American television {{miniseries}} written by Gerald Green, directed Marvin J. Chomsky, and featuring a cast headed by Creator/JamesWoods, Creator/MerylStreep, Creator/MichaelMoriarty. It was originally broadcast on Creator/{{NBC}} from April 16–19, 1978.

''Holocaust'' is widely seen as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts to ''Series/Roots1977'', being a historical miniseries that attempts to depict a well-documented atrocity of the recent past viewed through the eyes of a family living through it, and even features some of the same crew, most notably director Marvin J. Chomsky. The series has been widely credited with bringing the term "Holocaust" into popular usage to describe UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's attempted extermination of the European Jews.

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A miniseries made in 1978. It tells the story of two families. One is the Weiss family, German Jews consisting of patriarch Josef Weiss, his wife Bertha, and three children (Anna, Rudi, and Karl) as well as Karl's gentile wife Inga. The other family is the Dorf family, consisting of Erik, Marta, Peter, and Laura. Erik Dorf joins the SS due to economic problems, and goaded on by his ambitious wife Marta, rises through the ranks to help plan out UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. It takes place over a span of 10 years, from 1935 to 1945.

''Holocaust'' is widely seen as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts to ''Series/Roots1977'', being a historical miniseries that attempts to depict a well-documented atrocity of the recent past viewed through the eyes of a family living through it, and even features some of the same crew, most notably directors David Greene and Marvin J. Chomsky. The series has been widely credited with bringing the term "Holocaust" into popular usage to describe UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's attempted extermination of the European Jews.

''Holocaust'' is widely seen as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts to ''Series/Roots1977'', being a historical miniseries that attempts to depict a well-documented atrocity of the recent past viewed through the eyes of a family living through it, and even features some of the same crew, most notably director Marvin J. Chomsky. The series has been widely credited with bringing the term "Holocaust" into popular usage to describe UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's attempted extermination of the European Jews.

''Holocaust'' is widely seen as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts to ''Series/Roots1977'', being a historical miniseries that attempt to depict a well-documented atrocity of the recent past viewed through the eyes of a family living through it, and even features some of the same crew, most notably director Marvin J. Chomsky. The series has been widely credited with bringing the term "Holocaust" into popular usage to describe UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's attempted extermination of the European Jews.

''Holocaust'' is widely seen as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts to ''Series/Roots1977'', being a historical miniseries that attempt to depict a well-documented atrocity of the recent past viewed through the eyes of a family living through it, and even features some of the same crew, most notably director Marvin J. Chomsky. The series has been widely credited with bringing the term "Holocaust" into popular usage to describe UsefunNotes/NaziGermany's attempted extermination of the European Jews.

%%* IllGirl: Marta Dorf, but without the totally saintly qualities.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Karl remembered Dorf as the son of the neighborhood baker whom he treated for the chicken pox. Then he became a Nazi who targets Jewish people like the Weiss Family.

* YouAreWorthHell: Inga, a German Christian whose family is aligned with the Nazis, gives up her freedom to be together with her Jewish husband Karl in a concentration camp even after being warned that it would be [[{{Understatement}} "unpleasant"]], and this was after she was essentially raped just so she could have written correspondence with him.

* BlackSheep[=/=]WhiteSheep: Inga comes from a family of Nazis and Anti-Semites, yet she is HappilyMarried to the Jewish Karl and devoted to her in-laws.

* BreakTheCutie: Poor Anna. We first see her happily playing at the wedding of her brother Karl to Inga, then she was just a cheerful girl concentrating on her schoolwork and playing the piano with her mother. Later, the stress of her father being moved to Poland and Rudi running away gets to her and she is later raped by policemen. Her sister-in-law tries to get her psychiatric help after she suffers a breakdown because of it, only for Anna be sent to her death in Hadamar after the Nazis start killing people with mental problems.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Dorf demands to know why Josef hasn't fled Germany (this while he was reprimanding him for treating Gentile patients) since the Weiss family is wealthy enough, Josef merely tells him that if all the Jewish doctors fled, there wouldn't be anyone to treat the very old and poor.

* [[DadTheVeteran Grandpa the Veteran]]: Berta's Father proudly proclaimed in the beginning that he served in the infantry under the Kaiser, and even has the Iron Cross.
* HappilyMarried: Josef and Berta Weiss along with their son, Karl and Inga.

* IllGirl: Marta Dorf, but without the totally saintly qualities.
* JerkAss: Mueller
* KickTheDog: Mueller essentially rapes Inga and then mocks Karl about it.
* LadyMacbeth: Marta Dorf.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The American Captain more or less delivers this to Dorf after he's been captured and interrogated for his crimes. After this, [[DrivenToSuicide Dorf takes a cyanide capsule]].

* UngratefulBastard: Josef at the start was treating Marta Dorf for a heart murmur... yet later on, she and Erik refuse to have anything to do with him.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Rudi sadly states that he and his brother must've let their Doctor father down, due to Karl being more of an artist and [[BookDumb Rudi being more of a jock that was, by his own admission, lousy at schoolwork.]]

A miniseries made in 1978. It tells the story of two families. One is the Weiss family, a Jewish family consisting of patriarch Josef Weiss, his wife Bertha, and three children (Anna, Rudi, and Karl) as well as Karl's German wife Inga. The other family is the Dorf family, consisting of Erik, Marta, Peter, and Laura. Erik Dorf joins the SS due to economic problems, and goaded on by his ambitious wife Marta, rises through the ranks to help plan out UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. It takes place over a span of 10 years, from 1935 to 1945.

* AnyoneCanDie: Oh so much, only a few of the main characters remain alive at the end of the series. And it's obvious that no one, not even children are safe.

* BlackSheep / WhiteSheep: Inga comes from a family of Nazis and Anti-Semites, yet she is HappilyMarried to the Jewish Karl and devoted to her in-laws.
** Dorf's Uncle Kurt is this to a lesser extent, as he works in the camp trying to keep as much Jewish people alive.
* BookDumb: Rudi, he's not great at school, but he is a cunning member of the Resistance.
* BreakTheCutie: Poor Anna. We first see her happily playing at the wedding of her brother Karl to Inga, then she was just a cheerful girl concentrating on her schoolwork and playing the piano with her mother. Later the stress of her father being moved to Poland and Rudi running away gets to her and she is later raped by policemen. Her sister-in-law tries to get her psychiatric help after she suffers a breakdown because of it, only for Anna be sent to her death in Hadamar after the Nazis start killing people with mental problems.
** Berta was the comfortable and wealthy wife of a doctor who cared for her family and played the piano while entertaining the optimistic belief that the Nazi's hatred of the Jews will blow over in a while. Later she deals with her husband being deported, her parents dying, her oldest son being taken to Buchenwald, her other son running away, and her daughter dying. All this before she faces her inevitable death.
** Karl was an ambitious and sensitive artist that loved his wife/muse, he soon gets tortured, his hands damaged, finds that his parents died, and only made it to the liberation of the camp.
* DeadGuyJunior: Karl and Ingas' son is named after Josef, the boy's grandfather.

** Mueller cannot comprehend why Inga wouldn't just divorce Karl

* [[DadTheVeteran Grandpa the Veteran]]: Berta's Father proudly proclaimed in the beginning that he served in the infantry under the Kaiser, even has the Iron Cross.

* HeelRealization[=/=]VillainousBSOD: Dorf experiences this in the final episode. After his excuses are torn up he looks at the atrocities he helped to create and finally realizes that he has become a monster.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The American Captain more or less delivers this to Dorf after he's been captured and interrogated for his crimes. After this [[DrivenToSuicide Dorf takes a cyanide capsule]].

* UngratefulBastard: Josef at the start was treating Marta Dorf for a heart murmur...yet later on, she and Erik refuse to have anything to do with him.
** Inga's brother is rescued by Rudi Weiss and his girlfriend during the bombing of Kiev, when they take him to his comrades for safety he turns them in as Jews, all before he finally gets bombed.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Rudi sadly states that he and his brother must've let their Doctor father down, due to Karl being more of an artist and [[BookDumb Rudi being more of a jock that was by his own admission, lousy at schoolwork.]]

A miniseries made in 1978. It tells the story of two families. The Weiss family, a Jewish family consisting of patriarch Josef Weiss, his wife Bertha, and three children Anna, Rudi, and Karl, as well as Karl's German wife Inga. The other family is the Dorf family, consisting of Erik, Marta, Peter, and Laura. Erik Dorf joins the SS due to economic problems, and goaded on by his ambitious wife Marta, rises through the ranks to help plan out UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. It takes place over a span of 10 years, from 1935 to 1945.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: In the West, the TV Series was seen as a dated production by the time Film/SchindlersList and Film/{{Shoah}} came out ten years later, but in Germany, it was regarded as a sensation and an event and made many German people explore the traumatic period and their historical responsibility.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhof: In the West, the TV Series was seen as a dated production by the time Film/SchindlersList and Film/{{Shoah}} came out ten years later, but in Germany, it was regarded as a sensation and an event and made many German people explore the traumatic period and their historical responsibility.

* AwfulTruth: Uncle Kurt Dorf informs Erik's family that their father was a murderer and that he was captured by Americans and committed suicide.

* BreakTheCutie: Poor Anna. We first see her happily playing at the wedding of her brother Karl to Inga, then she was just a cheerful girl concentrating on her schoolwork and playing the piano with her Mother, later the stress of her father being moved to Poland and Rudi running away gets to her and she is later raped by policemen. Her sister-in-law tries to get her psychiatric help, only for Anna be sent to her death in Hadamar.
** Berta was the comfortable and wealthy wife of a doctor who cared for her family and played the piano while entertaining the optimistic belief that the Nazi's hatred of the Jews will blow over in a while; later she deals with her husband being deported, her parents dying, her oldest son being taken to Buchenwald, her other son running away, and her daughter dying. All this before she faces her inevitable death.

** He fails to understand a priest calling for mercy and tolerance for the Jews in his sermon, with the interrogated priest telling him that the war they are waging is on unarmed citizens and that [[BadassPreacher he will follow his conscience and the teachings of Christianity, rather than by how some people interpret it]].

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The American Captain more or less delivers this to Dorf after he's been captured and interrogated for his crimes, soon [[DrivenToSuicide Dorf takes a cyanide capsule]].
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Karl, the sensitive artist, is the sensitive guy to the more rebellious Rudi's Manly Man. Both have a passionate nature in common.

* SpoiledSweet: Berta Weiss despairs over being the pampered wife of a Doctor and of [[TheOjou her background of wealth and servants]], yet she is a kind-hearted woman who enjoys the piano and cares very much for the children she teaches in the Warsaw Ghetto.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Karl remembered Dorf as the son of the neighborhood baker whom he treated for the chicken pox, then he became a Nazi who targets Jewish people like the Weiss Family.

* YouAreWorthHell: Inga, a German Christian whose family is aligned with the Nazis, gives up her freedom to be together with her Jewish husband Karl in a concentration camp even after being warned that it would be [[{{Understatement}} "unpleasant"]] and this was after she was essentially raped just so she can have a written correspondence with her husband.

** Mueller cannot comprehend why Marta wouldn't just divorce Karl