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| Date: | Apr 1, 2015 7:00pm |
| Admission: | free |
| Event Language: | English |
| Website: | www.facebook.com/events/1626328794267837/ |
Radical Evil is a documentary asking why ordinary people become mass murderers. Its particular focus is on Nazi soldiers who murdered Jewish civilians with pistols and rifles in the period from 1941 to 1943. Approximately two million Jewish civilians are estimated to have been killed by these death squads in eastern Europe.
The film is based on quotations from the perpetrators and features interviews with psychiatrists, historians and genocide experts as well as with Benjamin Ferencz, one of the chief prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials and still dapper and articulate at the age of 93. Its conclusion is very bleak – one reason the film has proved such a tough sale. Ruzowitzky suggests there was nothing unique about the Nazi killers – and that we might all have done the same in their place.
