Line #185 WorksSetInWorldWarII/TheHolocaustInMedia


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3	A list of works that depict UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, the genocide committed by UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and some of its allies and collaborators on UsefulNotes/{{J\|udaism}}ewish people and several other minorities in UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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5	See also WorksSetInWorldWarII and JudaismAndJewishCultureInMedia.
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7	[[foldercontrol]]
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9	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
10	[[index]]
11	* ''Manga/{{Adolf}}''
12	* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa''
13	[[/index]]
14	[[/folder]]
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16	[[folder:Comic Books]]
17	* ''ComicBook/Block109'': In this AlternateHistory comic book, due to [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory Nazi Germany surviving longer than it did in real life]], Jewish presence has been totally wiped out from Europe. Hochmeister Zytek, one of Hitler's successors at the head of the state, has all the main Nazi leaders gathered in a room [[spoiler:and has them machine-gunned for planning and allowing the genocide, as well as for the countless other real life war crimes the comics turned up to eleven.]][[index]]
18	* ComicBook/ChickTracts: The Holocaust comes up in some strips, notably "Holocaust", [[ConspiracyTheorist and is usually portrayed as part of a Satanic conspiracy by the Vatican to destroy the Jews and suppress the Gospel]].
19	* ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'': The Jewish heroine ComicBook/{{Batwoman}} singlehandedly holds off both Nazis who've come to liquidate the Berlin Ghetto in 1940, and zombies.[[/index]]
20	* ''Creator/ECComics'': Stories like ''Master Race'' (art by Bernard Krigstein) and ''Desert Fox'' and many others.[[index]]
21	* ''ComicBook/{{Judenhass}}'', by Dave Sim, creator of ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark.'' It's a one-issue work that postulates that the Holocaust was the end result of a slowly-growing historical trend of anti-Semitism, and featured many recreations of photographs of the camps and their prisoners, done by Sim in the photorealistic drawing style he'd started working with in later issues of ''Cerebus''.
22	* ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'', written by Art Spiegelman, tells the story of how his parents Vladek and Anja Spiegelman survived the Holocaust.
23	* ''ComicBook/XMen'': [[ComicBook/{{Magneto}} Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto]] is famously a Holocaust survivor and several issues by Creator/ChrisClaremont deal with his memories in the camps. Despite being an AntiVillain, Magneto detests Nazism and loathes the Red Skull.
24	** ''ComicBook/MagnetoTestament'' explores Magneto's backstory as a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
25	** The Holocaust shapes Erik Lehnsherr's personality in the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' film series as well, fueling his hatred of mankind. Both the first ''Film/XMen1'' and ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' open in 1944 with him being deported to Auschwitz with his family, with his metal-controlling powers starting to manifest as he is separated from his parents. ''First Class'' expands this part of his backstory as it is a Nazi scientist and mutant, Dr. Klaus Schmidt/Sebastian Shaw, who kills his mother, triggering his thirst of revenge. In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', Apocalypse transports adult Erik to the empty camp in The80s to convince him to join his side. Erik ends up ''destroying'' the camp when his powers are amplified by Apocalypse.
26	[[/folder]]
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28	[[folder:Fan Works]]
29	[[index]]
30	* ''Fanfic/{{Heimatfront}}''
31	* ''Fanfic/IfIWasYourNazi''
32	[[/index]]
33	[[/folder]]
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35	[[folder:Documentaries]]
36	!!Films
37	[[index]]
38	* ''Film/AnneFrankRemembered'' -- The famous teenaged diarist who died in Belsen.
39	* ''Film/DeNurembergANuremberg'' -- 1989 French film chronicling Nazi Germany from its rise to its fall, with the Holocaust making up about half the screentime.
40	* ''Film/IntoTheArmsOfStrangersStoriesOfTheKindertransport'' -- The rescue of German children to England in the months between Kristallnacht and the outbreak of war.
41	* ''Film/TheLastDays'' -- The Holocaust in Hungary, perpetrated by the Germans in the last year of the war.
42	* ''Film/TheLongWayHome''
43	* ''Film/{{Shoah}}'' -- Documentary by Claude Lanzmann.
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45	!!Television
46	* ''Series/SovietStormWorldWarIIInTheEast'' -- The Soviets, during their advance into Poland, discover several concentration camps, including Auschwitz.
47	* ''Series/TheWorldAtWar''
48	[[/index]]
49	[[/folder]]
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51	[[folder:Films - Animation]]
52	[[index]]
53	* ''WesternAnimation/Charlotte2021''
54	* ''Animation/WhereIsAnneFrank''
55	[[/index]]
56	[[/folder]]
57
58	[[folder:Films - Live-Action]]
59	[[index]]
60	* ''Film/AllMyLovedOnes''
61	* ''Film/{{Amen}}'' -- A member of the SS wants to warn as much people as possible about the Death Camps through the Vatican.
62	* ''Film/AngryHarvest''
63	* ''Film/AuRevoirLesEnfants'' -- The story of Father Jacques de Jésus, who took it upon himself to hide Jewish children in his school in occupied France.
64	* ''Film/{{Bent}}''
65	* ''Film/TheBigRedOne''
66	* ''Film/BlackBook'' -- A Dutch Jewish woman sees her family being gunned down by German occupiers and goes into hiding then works for the Resistance..
67	* ''Film/TheBoatIsFull''
68	* ''Film/TheBoyInTheStripedPyjamas'' -- The young son of a SS befriends a Jewish concentration camp inmate of the same age.
69	* ''Film/ButterfliesDoNotLiveHere'' -- Documentary short about 4,000 drawings left by children in the Theresienstadt ghetto, found after the war.
70	* ''Film/ComeAndSee'' -- 1985 Soviet film about the Nazi plunder of Belarus and the resistance of the partisans.
71	* ''Film/{{Conspiracy\|2001}}'' -- Fictionalization of the 1942 Nazi conference attended by UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich that planned the Holocaust.
72	* ''Film/TheCounterfeiters''
73	* ''Film/TheDayTheClownCried''
74	* ''Film/{{Defiance}}'' -- Follows the Bielski group, Jewish Soviet partisans who set up refugee camps in Belarus for Jews fleeing the Holocaust.
75	* ''Film/{{Denial}}'' -- about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_v_Penguin_Books_Ltd the libel trial between Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt (and her publisher) and Holocaust denier David Irving]]
76	* ''Film/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'' -- Adapts the story of Anne Frank and her family according to her diary.
77	* ''Film/EscapeFromSobibor''
78	* ''Film/EuropaEuropa'' -- A German Jewish teen manages to survive by pretending to be a non-Jew.
79	* ''Film/TheGardenOfTheFinziContinis'' -- The lead-up anyway, ends with the Jews of Ferrara being rounded up for deportation
80	* ''Film/{{Genocide\|1981}}'' -- 1981 documentary
81	* ''Film/GodOnTrial''
82	* ''Film/GoebbelsAndGeduldig'' -- A comedy in which a Jewish concentration camp inmate happens to look exactly like UsefulNotes/JosephGoebbels.
83	* ''Film/TheGreatDictator'' -- At the time it was made, the death camps had not yet been created, but it still deals with Nazi mistreatment of the Jews, including a concentration camp.
84	* ''Film/TheGreyZone''
85	* ''Film/HiddenInSilence''
86	* ''Film/{{In Darkness\|2011}}'' -- A Pole in Lviv hides twelve Jews in the sewers after the ghetto is liquidated.
87	* ''Film/InThePresenceOfMineEnemies''
88	* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' -- Jewish protagonist Shosanna Dreyfus escapes the massacre of her family by a SS squad led by Hans Landa and plans revenge.
89	* ''Film/JacobTheLiar'' -- 1975 East German film.
90	** ''Film/JakobTheLiar'',1999 [[ForeignRemake American remake]] with Creator/RobinWilliams
91	* ''Film/JojoRabbit''
92	* ''Film/JudgmentAtNuremberg''
93	* ''Film/{{Kapo}}'' -- A teenaged Jewish girl escapes Auschwitz only to become a despised "kapo" (prisoner guarding other prisoners) in a different labor camp.
94	* ''Film/DerLetzteZug'' (''The Last Train'')
95	* ''Film/LifeIsBeautiful''
96	* ''Film/TheManWithTheIronHeart'' -- Depicts the life of UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust
97	* ''Film/MiracleAtMidnight''
98	* ''Film/LesMiserables1995''
99	* ''Film/MyFuhrer'' -- A Jewish acting coach is taken out of a concentration camp so he coach a depressed Adolf Hitler in order to prepare a speech.
100	* ''Film/NightAndFog''
101	* ''Film/TheNinthCircle'' -- A Christian family in Yugoslavia attempts to save a young Jewish woman by marrying her off to their son
102	* ''Film/NoneShallEscape''
103	* ''Film/{{Olga}}''
104	* ''Film/OperationFinale'' -- The capture of Adolf Eichmann, one of the upper "managers" of the Holocaust.
105	* ''Film/Phoenix2014'' -- A Holocaust survivor is the protagonist; she tries to go back to her Gentile husband after the end of the war, [[spoiler:only to discover he was the one who sold her to the Nazis.]]
106	* ''Film/ThePianist'' -- Biopic about the struggle to survive of pianist Władysław Szpilman during the war in the ghettos the Nazis created in Poland.
107	* ''Film/{{Remember}}''
108	* ''Film/RescuersStoriesOfCourage''
109	* ''Film/Resistance2020'' -- Biopic about the life of Jewish mime Creator/MarcelMarceau during the war and how he helped saving French Jewish children from deportation.
110	* ''Film/TheRevoltOfJob''
111	* ''Film/{{Rosenstrasse}}'' -- Non-Jewish women gather in protest outside the Rosenstrasse detention center, after their Jewish husbands are mass-arrested, in preparation for sending them to the concentration camps.
112	* ''Film/SarahsKey''
113	* ''Film/{{Sandra}}''
114	* ''Film/SchindlersList'' -- Biopic about German industry baron Oskar Schindler, who managed to save the lives of hundreds of his Jewish employees.
115	* ''Film/TheShopOnMainStreet''
116	* ''Film/ShutterIsland''
117	* ''Film/SonOfSaul''
118	* ''Film/SophiesChoice''
119	* ''Film/TheSorrowAndThePity''
120	* ''Film/{{Sterne}}''
121	* ''Film/TheStranger''
122	* ''Film/Sunshine1999''
123	* ''Film/{{Toyland}}''
124	* ''Film/TheUnborn''
125	* ''Film/VisasAndVirtue'' -- about a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania who issued thousands of entrance visas to Jewish refugees from Poland
126	* ''Film/WomanInGold''
127	* ''Film/XMen1'' -- Erik Lensherr/Magneto was a young Jewish boy who was deported to Auschwitz during the war. His powers over metal first manifested under the stress of being separated from his mother at the camp's entrance.
128	** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' -- Erik was experimented on in Auschwitz by Klaus Schmidt (who killed his mother, and changed name as Sebastian Shaw after the war) and [[NaziHunter hunted the latter]] after the war.
129	* ''Film/TheZoneOfInterest'' is set on the outskirts of Auschwitz in the 1940s.
130	[[/index]]
131	[[/folder]]
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133	[[folder:Literature]]
134	[[index]]
135	* ''Literature/TheAngloAmericanNaziWar''
136	* ''Literature/BondisBrother''
137	* ''Literature/TheBookThief''
138	* ''Literature/TheBoyInTheStripedPyjamas''
139	* ''Literature/BriarRose''
140	* ''Literature/DeathIsMyTrade'': Fictionalized biography of Rudolf Höss, the Nazi commandant in charge of Auschwitz.
141	* ''Literature/TheDevilsArithmetic''
142	* ''Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl'': Anne Frank's autobiography.
143	* ''Literature/{{Fatherland}}''
144	* ''Literature/TheFinalSolution''
145	* ''Literature/TheFootprintOfMussolini'': The Nazi efforts to exterminate the Jews are a major theme during the World War II segments.
146	* ''Literature/GotzAndMeyer''
147	* ''Literature/HorribleHistories'' -- the book about World War II has a chapter on the Holocaust [[MoodWhiplash largely devoid of humour]].
148	* ''Literature/IfThisIsAMan'': Written by Primo Levi, an Italian Jew who survived Auschwitz. Adapted into the one-man teleplay ''Primo'' by Antony Sher, broadcast on Creator/{{HBO}} and Creator/TheBBC.
149	* ''Literature/MakingHistory'': A Holocaust survivor and a history student attempt to change history to prevent the Holocaust. Events at Auschwitz have a major impact on the plot.
150	* ''Literature/{{Night}}'': Written by Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz.
151	* ''Literature/TheOdessaFile'': The plot is kicked off by the suicide of a concentration camp survivor, and follows a German reporter who tries to track down an ex-Nazi officer who figures heavily in the diary the survivor leaves behind.
152	* ''Literature/OttoAutobiographyOfATeddyBear'': A [[ChildrensLiterature children's]] {{picture book\|s}} about the odyssey of a teddy bear that belonged to a young Jewish boy before, during and after World War II.
153	* ''Literature/TheReader''
154	* ''Literature/RoseUnderFire'': A novel about a young American woman who ends up in a concentration camp.
155	* ''Literature/TheWindsOfWarAndWarAndRemembrance''
156	* ''Literature/TheZoneOfInterest''
157	[[/index]]
158	[[/folder]]
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160	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
161	[[index]]
162	* ''Series/AnneFrankTheWholeStory'': A miniseries and biopic based on the life of Anne Frank.
163	* ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' -- One episode has Easy Company stumble across the concentration camp of Kaufering, a sub-camp of Dachau.
164	* ''Series/TheCherryQueen'' -- Persecutions of Jews (and other people such as homosexuals) after the Nazis take power in 1933. The Jewish woman protagonist goes into hiding during World War II, and her older sister perishes in a Death Camp.
165	* ''Series/{{Holocaust}}'' -- This 1978 miniseries portrays the events of the Holocaust through the eyes of two German families, one Jewish and the other non-Jewish. Notably, the series is often credited for popularizing "Holocaust" as the most common name for the Nazi genocide.
166	* ''Series/{{Hunters}}''
167	* ''Series/Numb3rs'' -- The third season episode "Provenance" that deals with a stolen painting that was once owned by a Holocaust survivor's (Creator/GenaRowlands) family before the Nazis came and the legal battles that soon followed.
168	* ''Series/{{Nuremberg}}''
169	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' -- The episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E12Tribunal Tribunal]]" revolves around a time traveller and the son of a Holocaust survivor trying to bring an old Nazi to justice.
170	* ''Series/ASmallLight'' -- Focuses on the Dutch couple who helped [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]]'s family to hide.
171	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The episodes "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E9DeathsHeadRevisited Deaths-head Revisited]]" and "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E4HesAlive He's Alive]]" both involve the Holocaust.
172	* ''Film/UnderTheRomanSky''
173	* ''Series/UnsereMuetterUnsereVaeter''
174	[[/index]]
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177	[[folder:Music]]
178	* In Music/KateBush's [[Music/FiftyWordsForSnow "Snowed in at Wheeler Street"]], the Holocaust is implied to be the event in 1942 where the song's StarCrossedLovers meet the second time around; the narrator notes how they "were on different sides" and how she hid her lover under her bed, only for him to be found and taken away.
179	* The track "[[Music/TroutMaskReplica Dachau Blues]]" from Music/CaptainBeefheart's album ''Trout Mask Replica''.
180	* "Dance Me to the End of Love" by Music/LeonardCohen was inspired by the Holocaust, regardless of what the title might imply, and details the use of inmate orchestras by the SS during mass executions. Cohen himself was Jewish, and was just 11 years old when the Holocaust was widely publicized in the wake of Germany's defeat.
181	* "Never Again" by ''Music/{{Disturbed}}'' is a combination of a song about the Holocaust and an anthem about not letting something like it happen again.
182	* "This Train" by Music/IndigoGirls.
183	* "No Love Lost" by Music/JoyDivision is a loose adaptation of the novel they took their name from, ''House of Dolls'', detailing the Nazis' use of female concentration camp prisoners as sex slaves. The song's bridge even quotes a passage from the book.
184	* Several songs by Music/TheMonolithDeathcult, such as "Master of the Bryansk Forests" and "The Cruel Hunters".
185	* "Herb Girls of Birkenau" by cello rock band Rasputina.
186	* "The Final Solution" by ''Music/{{Sabaton}}''. "Inmate 4859" is also set during the Holocaust, and "Rise of Evil", about the rise of the Nazis, references it several times.
187	* "Belsen Was a Gas" by the Music/SexPistols is narrated by an SS officer manning the titular extermination camp, and features a photo of concentration camp prisoners as its single cover. Frontman Music/JohnLydon went on to regret writing the song, stating in a 1996 interview that it shouldn't have been released.
188	* The songs "Angel of Death" and "SS-3" by Music/{{Slayer}} from ''Music/ReignInBlood'' and ''Music/DivineIntervention'' respectively.
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191	[[folder:Sports]]
192	* This is the setting of Canadian figure skater Roman Sadovsky's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EybhBi5TsHc long program]] from the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 competitive seasons, which features music from ''Film/SchindlersList''. His costume evokes the filth and blood of a concentration camp prisoner, and the jumps represent hard labour. It's the darkest program in the sport to date because Sadovsky maintains a haunting, grim tone throughout his performance. It ends on a hopeless note, as his character doesn't get rescued. His final pose consists of looking up to the sky (or the ceiling of his cell) with his arms outstretched as if pleading for help from the heavens, but the only response he receives is an ominous-sounding wind gust. It's TruthInTelevision because for nearly all victims of genocide, there is no happy ending.
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195	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
196	* ''Charnel Houses of Europe: the Shoah'', a supplement for ''TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion'', outlines the Holocaust and describes its effects on the realms of the dead. It's worth a mention that the supplement, and all other mentions in other games of the ''World of Darkness'', make it clear that the Holocaust was ''not'' part of any supernatural being's plot; it was all human madness and evil from start to finish.
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199	[[folder:Theatre]]
200	[[index]]
201	* ''And Then They Came For Me'': A multimedia production, combining tapes of interviews with Anne Frank's friends who survived the Holocaust – Helmuth "Hello" Silberberg, now known as "Ed" and Eva Geiringer Schloss - live actors recreating scenes from their lives.
202	* ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'' is set in Berlin around 1930. It ends before the Holocaust gets going, but the fact that the main characters are the kind of people likely to end up its victims is foreshadowed with more or less subtlety depending on the production.
203	* ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank''
204	[[/index]]
205	[[/folder]]
206
207	[[folder:Video Games]]
208	[[index]]
209	* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWWII'': The epilogue has soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division discovering both concentration and labor camps during their advance into Germany.
210	* ''VideoGame/KZManager'': A ''very'' controversial game where you play as the director of a Nazi concentration camp.
211	* ''Videogame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' -- Set in an AlternateHistory in which the Nazis won WWII, the player character is sent undercover to a forced labour camp, he mentions the camps of Auschwitz and Treblinka other examples of the place he is in.
212	[[/index]]
213	[[/folder]]
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215	[[folder:Web Original]]
216	* ''WebVideo/BedtimeStoriesYoutubeChannel'' has the episode "Secrets of Celle Neues Rathaus", which features the titular HauntedHeadquarters used by the SS to torture and conduct unethical experiments on Jewish prisoners.[[index]]
217	* ''WebAnimation/WartimeStories'' has the "Depraved Doctors of the Third Reich" two-parter, discussing in detail the role Nazi Germany's SS doctors had in their systematic extermination of Jews and other "undesirables".
218	* ''WebVideo/WorldWarII''
219	[[/index]]
220	[[/folder]]
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222	[[folder:Western Animation]]
223	[[index]]
224	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLongLongHoliday''
225	[[/index]]
226	[[/folder]]

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