Claude Lanzmann did not use any footage from the Holocaust in this nine-and-a-half hour documentary. Then, he talks to survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since they only agreed to be interviewed by audio). This is how he interviews people: He asks them to give him as many small details as possible, which helps him build up a picture of what happened during the Nazi genocide. His subjects show that anti-Semitism, which led to the death of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, is still alive and well in many people who still live there and other places.
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Claude Lanzmann did not use any footage from the Holocaust in this nine-and-a-half hour documentary. Then, he talks to survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since they only agreed to be interviewed by audio). This is how he interviews people: He asks them to give him as many small details as possible, which helps him build up a picture of what happened during the Nazi genocide. His subjects show that anti-Semitism, which led to the death of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, is still alive and well in many people who still live there and other places.
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