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Holocaust (título completo: Holocaust: The Story of the Family Weiss) (1978) é uma minissérie televisiva americana que foi exibida na NBC ao longo de quatro noites, de 16 a 19 de abril de 1978. Ela dramatiza o Holocausto pela perspectiva da família Weiss, judeus berlinenses fictícios Dr. Josef Weiss (Fritz Weaver), sua esposa Berta (Rosemary Harris) e seus três filhos — Karl (James Woods), um artista casado com Inga (Meryl Streep), uma mulher cristã; Rudi (Joseph Bottoms); e a adolescente Anna (Blanche Baker). Também acompanha Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), um advogado "ariano" fictício que se torna nazista por necessidade econômica, ascendendo nas SS e gradualmente se tornando um criminoso de guerra. Holocaust destaca inúmeros eventos que ocorreram antes e durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, como a Kristallnacht, a construção de guetos judeus e, mais tarde, a construção de campos de extermínio e o uso de câmaras de gás. A minissérie ganhou vários prêmios e recebeu críticas positivas, mas também foi criticada. No The New York Times, o sobrevivente do Holocausto e ativista político Elie Wiesel escreveu que ela era: "Falsa, ofensiva, barata: Como produção de TV, o filme é um insulto àqueles que pereceram e àqueles que sobreviveram." No entanto, a série desempenhou um papel importante nos debates públicos sobre o Holocausto na Alemanha Ocidental após sua exibição em 1979, e seu impacto foi descrito como "enorme".

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“They will never forgive us for the evil they've done us.”
— Welcome in Vienna (1986 film), written by Axel Corti and Georg Stefan Troller, as quoted in Marceline Loridan-Ivens, But You Did Not Come Back (London: Faber & Faber, 2017), p. 98
“The Nazi death machine worked economically, scientifically and euphemistically. In a word, it was very, very modern.”
— Niall Ferguson, The War of the Worlds (Penguin, 2006), p. 510
“Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution to the Jewish Question)”
— Reinhard Heydrich, follow-up letter to the German diplomat Martin Luther asking for administrative assistance in the implementation of the "Final Solution", i.e. the Holocaust (26 February 1942); Heydrich had used similar language in a speech at the Wannsee Conference, Berlin (20 January 1942), as quoted in Arno J. Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? (1990), p. 304
“Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people.”
— Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
“What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life — that is what is abnormal.”
— Elie Wiesel, after being asked "What does it take to be normal again, after having your humanity stripped away by the Nazis?" in an interview in O: The Oprah Magazine (November 2000)
“The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened... You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed. Race hatred, violence, idolatries—they still flourish.”
— Elie Wiesel, as quoted in "Will Hatred Ever End?", The Watchtower (15 June 1995)

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