Holocaust in Films

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Harold and Maude (1971)
It seems that Maude was previously in Auschwitz. (Nothing is mentioned in the movie, they just show her prisoner number)

Just like the so-called Holocaust survivors with their ID tattoos, the victims of alleged alien encounters and alien abductions often show markings on their skin supposed to prove the "truthfulness" of their fanciful stories.

SHOCKING Alien Abduction Markings on Skin! | The Proof Is Out There


Alleged Abductee Shows Physical 'Proof'

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The Beast in Heat and SS Hell Camp




https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ss_hell_camp

Review;

During my personal observation of this unique piece of cinematography, I found myself left feeling a sense of elation and release as the “Bestia” preformed various actions towards their co-stars. My father and I witnessed and bonded over this shared experience. From the first couple of minutes I knew I was hooked on this masterpiece. Every scene feels meticulously crafted by the masterful direction of Luigi Batzella. I could not express through words quite how much I recommend the surveilling this celluloid.

wiki;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bestia_in_calore

A beautiful yet nefarious female SS officer and doctor, Ellen Kratsch (Magall), creates a genetic, incubus-like mutant human beast (Baccaro) in a castle in occupied Europe. The beast is a rapacious, squat sex fiend, which she uses to torture and molest female prisoners as part of a new medical experiment. The dwarfish beast is kept on a diet of mega-aphrodisiacs. In addition to the beast, as the Nazis battle a local insurgency, captives of both genders are stripped naked and forced to endure various torture and interrogation, including electric shocks, systematic rape by the beast, finger-nail pulling, castration, and beatings.

During the film's climax, the partisans attack the castle, and Kratsch is given to the beast in revenge.

I give it half a star out of 5. Would not watch again.

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The Human Centipede (First Sequence)



The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2009 Dutch independent body horror film written, directed and co-produced by Tom Six. The film concerns a deranged German surgeon who kidnaps three tourists and conjoins them surgically, mouth to anus, forming the eponymous "human centipede". It stars Dieter Laser as Josef Heiter, the creator of the centipede; and Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, and Akihiro Kitamura as Heiter's victims.

According to Six, the concept arose from a joke he had made with friends about punishing a child molester by stitching his mouth to the anus of a "fat truck driver". Other sources of inspiration were Nazi medical experiments performed during World War II, such as those performed by Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Plot

Lindsay and Jenny, tourists from New York visiting Germany, get a flat tire on their way to a night club and seek help at the house of misanthropic, psychopathic surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter. He drugs the women with Rohypnol in their water and locks them up in a makeshift medical ward. Heiter also abducts Japanese tourist Katsuro.

Heiter is a retired world-renowned expert at separating Siamese twins, but dreams of making new creatures by sewing humans together. He says he will surgically connect his three victims mouth-to-anus, so that they share a single digestive system. His prior experiment, the 3Dog, conjoined three Rottweilers into a "Siamese triplet"; all three dogs died following the operation. Heiter has moved on to using human subjects.

Production

The inspiration for the film's plot came from a joke that writer/director Tom Six once made to his friends about punishing a child molester they saw on TV by stitching his mouth to the anus of an overweight truck driver.[8] Six saw this as the concept for a great horror film, and he began to develop the idea.[18]

Six has stated that The Human Centipede is, to an extent, a reflection on fascism. Dieter Laser, who played the antagonist Dr Heiter, said during the promotion of the film that he felt the guilt of Nazi actions during the war had haunted ordinary Germans for generations, and that as a German whose father participated in the war, he often felt "like a child whose father is in jail for murder."[24] The inclusion of a German villain came from this, with Six citing both the German invasion of the Netherlands during World War II and the Nazi medical experiments as inspiration.[25] Laser stated in an interview with Clark Collis for Entertainment Weekly that he considered the film a "grotesque [parody] about the Nazi psyche".[8] Heiter's name was an amalgamation of several Nazi war criminals, his surname (literally meaning "cheerful" in German) a combination of the names of Nazi doctors Fetter and Richter, and his first name coming from Josef Mengele, who carried out experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp.[26] World War II also played an influence on the nationality of the other main characters who were American and Japanese.[27]

Laser remained in character as Heiter throughout the filming process, often shouting at the rest of the cast on set,[16] and wherever possible staying away from the other actors and crew between scenes to preserve a level of separation.[42] He only ate food he had brought onto the set himself,[43] eating mostly fruit.[16] He contributed dialogue for his character and selected many of his character's outfits from his personal wardrobe.[44] Six claims that the jacket Heiter wore, which was bought by Laser, was a genuine jacket worn by real Nazi doctors.[45]

The Nazi influence behind Heiter led to the use of classical music when the doctor is "training" his centipede. The music was deliberately played at low quality to simulate the music coming from a loudspeaker, in much the same way as music was sometimes played in Nazi concentration camps.[48]



Release

The Human Centipede was released in the United States without an MPAA rating.[20] It was released theatrically in New York City on 30 April 2010 and had a limited release in the US shortly afterward, distributed by IFC Films.[70] Throughout 2009, the film was included in several film festivals around the world including the London FrightFest Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival,[7] Sitges Film Festival,[71] and Screamfest Horror Film Festival.[7] Six claimed that the "buzz"[73] surrounding the film led to several studios approaching him to discuss its distribution.[73] IFC Films has a history of releasing unconventional horror films, having previously distributed the Norwegian Nazi-zombie feature Dead Snow and the 2009 release Antichrist.[74] The Human Centipede's US gross was $181,467, and worldwide takings amounted to $252,207.[75]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human ... _Sequence)

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Overlord (2018 film)



Overlord is a 2018 American action horror film[4][5][6] directed by Julius Avery and written by Billy Ray and Mark L. Smith. It stars Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, John Magaro, Gianny Taufer, Pilou Asbæk, Bokeem Woodbine and Iain De Caestecker.[7] The film was produced by Lindsey Weber and J. J. Abrams, through his Bad Robot banner, as the company's first R-rated film.[8][9] The plot follows several American soldiers who are dropped behind enemy lines the day before D-Day and discover terrifying Nazi experiments.



Plot

On the eve of D-Day in an alternate 1940s where Executive Order 9981 is signed in 1944, a paratrooper squad, most of them in an integrated unit, is sent to destroy a German radio-jamming tower in an old church. Their plane is shot down and most of the squad, including squad leader Sergeant Rensin, die either in the crash or by Nazi soldiers and landmines. Four survivors remain: second-in-command Corporal Ford, Private Boyce, Private Tibbet, and Private Chase.

Boyce searches for Tibbet and Chase, witnessing Nazis burning disfigured villagers, and is forced by a dog into a truck carrying dead bodies to the church. Boyce disembarks and finds an underground base housing a radio operating room and laboratory where the Germans perform experiments involving a serum and pit of black tar. Boyce takes a syringe of serum and rescues Rosenfeld, another member of their squad who had been captured. They escape through the base's sewers.

The squad plans to infiltrated the base, destroy the tower and laboratory, and rescue Paul. Rosenfeld and Tibbet launch a frontal assault as a distraction, while the others enter the base through the sewer. Boyce and Ford plant the explosives, and Chloe finds Paul, sends him back to the village, and kills a mutated test subject who corners her. Boyce escapes as the church and jamming tower collapse behind him, killing Ford, Wafner, and the test subjects. He joins the others as a radio announces that the D-Day invasion was successful.

Cast

• Jovan Adepo as Private First Class Edward Boyce, an idealistic African-American paratrooper and former member of "The Triple Nickels" who uncovers the Nazi experiments below the church and radio tower.

• Jacob Anderson as Private First Class Charlie Dawson, African-American paratrooper and former member of "The Triple Nickels" who became one of the black soldiers to participate in the paratrooper squad assigned to destroy the Nazi jamming tower CielBlanc.

• Erich Redman as Dr. Schmidt, head of the experimentation on French civilians and dead German soldiers.

• Dominic Applewhite as Private First Class Jacob Rosenfeld, a Jewish paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division assigned to destroy the Nazi jamming tower Ciel Blanc. After his unit’s plane was shot down Rosenfeld was immediately captured and taken to CielBlanc Church. Dr. Schmidt proceeded to use Rosenfeld as a test subject, injecting him with tar in order to refine it into his serum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlord_(2018_film)

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Shutter Island (Released 2010)



Plot: The implausible escape of a murderess brings U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner (Mark Ruffalo) to Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like insane asylum located on a remote, windswept island
In 1954, U.S. Marshal "Teddy" Daniels visits a Prison Hospital for the Criminally Insane on Shutter Island, Boston Harbour. He’s there to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a prisoner-patient of the hospital who had previously drowned her three children. Early in the film Teddy experiences migraine headaches with flashbacks of his experiences as a U.S. Army soldier during the liberation of Dachau. These repeated traumatic memories of the liberation of the KZ Dachau during his service in WWII, show piles of corpses and show him ultimately murdering the German guards with his fellow soldiers.



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Kapo (Released 1960)



Plot: A prisoner (Susan Strasberg) in a concentration camp collaborates with her Nazi captors in order to survive.
One of the first films portraying the holyH narrative on the big screen. A young Jewish girl who survives the gas chambers and becomes a kapò, a prisoner in charge of keeping the other prisoners in check. The beginning of the film is the trauma of these prisoners being separated front their loved ones. Then Edith/Nicole befriends a German officer and then falls in love with a Russian PoW.

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Shutter Island (Released 2010)

Shutter Island also rehashed the widepread misconception about concentration camps and [alleged] death camps. One of the favorite tricks of Holohoaxers to fool the masses by making the "Holocaust" look like an obvious fact. But what would Holohoaxers be without the horrific Allied miscaptioned imagery of disease-ridden concentration camps?

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Monster: The Ed Gein Story (2025) by Netflix
has numerous references to Holocaust: including Stalag porn, Ilse Koch herself, infamous Nordhausen photo, human skin lampshades...

Gallery here:


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Interestingly, both Monster: The Ed Gein Story (2025) and Shutter Island (2010) deal with Schizophrenia.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story (2025) suggests that Ed Gein was influenced by pictures of dead bodies in concentration camps
and (an invented) Stalag magazine "The Bitch of Buchenwald".
"And while it’s unclear if there would have been an illustrated comic book detailing her crimes, as there is in the show, there were certainly post-war pulp magazines that chronicled the accusations against her in brutal detail, alongside claims that she was a nymphomaniac who also delighted in the torture and pain of others.

This cartoonish version of Koch is what’s presented in Monster and was, in fact, part of what persuaded German actress Vicky Krieps, whose grandfather died in the Holocaust, to take the role in Murphy’s adaptation."
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/ ... 235443123/

SPOILER ALERT: In Shutter Island Teddy Daniels suffers from war trauma and Schizophrenia.
He has glimpses of memories, dreams and fantasies about Dachau.
Some parts of Dachau look like Auschwitz, so this could be interpreted that his memory is mixing these two camps together like some other things in the movie. He is also chasing one patient of the same mental institution who he thinks is responsible for the fire which destroyed his family life. In the end, it is his alter ego or projection. Teddy Daniels is also Andrew Laeddis (Anagram of his name). Teddy is ridden with war time trauma and guilt not being able to help his wife with her illness. He develops two different personas to deal with guilt.

Split personalities, false memories and persons with many names are very common among so called holocaust survivors.
In some cases psychoses and Schizophrenia are attributed to holocaust.

Some interesting articles:

Genetics of Schizophrenia in an Ashkenazi Jewish Case-Control Cohort
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/g ... 0448.v1.p1

Psychosis in children of Holocaust survivors: influence of the Holocaust in the choice of themes in their psychoses
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3968545/

Holocaust toddlers nearly twice as likely to develop schizophrenia
https://www.timesofisrael.com/holocaust ... zophrenia/

Psychiatric Genocide: Nazi Attempts to Eradicate Schizophrenia
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2800142/

[Leif F.]

Have always been interested in getting an overview and precise numbers regarding the extent of Holocaust-promotion in the different types of media.

What I have found so far:

Total amount of just feature films (i.e. EXCLUDING documentaries etc) made about the Holocaust 1945-2025:

400+ (!)

And a complete guide with the description and history of/to each of them, compiled by apparently the Dean of Holocaust cinematography himself, Rich Brownstein, is also available:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/holocaust- ... iate=93390

This book also offers very interesting facts/stats regarding the reception of these films:

"One quarter of all American-produced Holocaust-related feature films have won or been nominated for at least one Oscar. In fact, from 1945 through 1991, half of all American Holocaust features were nominated."

Purely mathematically the above data means 400 movies in 80 years = 5 movies /year= 1 movie every 2.4 months.
(and an incredible rate of overrepresentation regarding Award-nominations).

Though this is misleading, given that as the (very incomplete) Wikipedia entry tells us, the Holocaust-movies as popular genre did not really get going until the late 70`s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Holocaust_films) or early 80`s and it`s major boom-period with an average rate of around 10-12 movies/year= 1 every 4-5 weeks was/is from the 90`s until now.

The general truth of this rate seems corroborated not only by Norman Finkelstein, who according to Ron Unz (who usually has his statistics right), cites 180 as the number of Hollywood-Holocaust-films from 1989-2004
(https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravd ... st-denial/)

But also simply counting together last years, 2024, most famous ones (simple Google search):

1- The Brutalist https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_brutalist (-10(!)Oscar nominations)
2- A Real Pain https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_real_pain
3- Treasure https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/treasure_2024
4- The Commandants Shadow https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_commandants_shadow
5- The Zone of Interest https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_zone_of_interest
6- Resistance, They fought back https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/resist ... ought_back
7- Bardejov https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bardejov
8- Marco, The Invented Truth https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29298085/
9- From Darkness to Light https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/from_darkness_to_light
10- Vishniac https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/vishniac
11- 999, The Forgotten Girls Of The Holocaust https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/999_th ... girls_2023

In addition at least these 4 Tv-Series:

1- We were the lucky ones https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9114512/
2- The Tatooist of Auschwitz https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9022422/
3- The Jewish Council https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10540338/
4- Hitler and the Nazis, Evil on trial https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32331294/

And these documentaries:

1- Liliana https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35196636/
2- The Eichmann trial https://www.eichmanntrial.com/

And all these are just the films having the Holocaust as its main topic, not included are all those others who have it as aside-topic or mention it in passing by short/longer references and or jokes as for example the worlds most succesfull award-winning movie of all in the 2024 Oscars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/96th_Academy_Awards) :

Oppenheimer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)

In summary all the above means in pure numbers: Approximately 17 popular international cinematographic productions/year

= AVERAGE 1 EVERY 3 WEEKS.

Anything to add to this list that I might have overlooked?