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The Eichmann Show

British BBC TV drama film

The Eichmann Show is a British BBC TVdrama film produced by Laurence Bowen and Ken Marshall and directed by Paul Andrew Williams.

It is based on the true story of how American TV producer Milton Fruchtman and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz came to broadcast the trial of one of World War II's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, in [2]

Plot

In , former Nazi Adolf Eichmann is captured by Israeli agents and put on trial.

Milton fruchtman wikipedia Over the course of the four month trial, over Holocaust survivors gave evidence against Eichmann. External links [ edit ]. Ron Huntsman View Ron Huntsman. Fruchtman wanted to ensure that the crimes of the Nazis were never forgotten and saw Eichmann as a central driver of the Nazis intention to commit mass genocide on the Jewish people.

American television producer Milton Fruchtman fervently believes that the trial, with its witness accounts of Nazi atrocities, should be televised to show the world the evils of the Holocaust, and to combat any resurgence of Nazism, and joins forces with blacklisted director Leo Hurwitz. Despite death threats, reluctance to cooperate from several networks, and even resistance from the Israeli prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, who fears a 'show trial', the pair persist and move their cameras into the courtroom.

Edited daily and shown in some three dozen countries, the 'Eichmann Show' becomes the first ever global television documentary.

Cast

Postscript

The film postscript reads: "After adjourning on the 14th August, the judges declared Eichmann responsible for the terrible conditions on board the trains to Auschwitz, and for obtaining Jews to fill those trains.

Eichmann was also found guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against Poles, Slovenes and Gypsies. Adolf Eichmann was hanged on the 31 May His ashes were cast into the sea.

Milton fruchtman biography Postscript [ edit ]. Milton Fruchtman Milton was a ground breaking year-old US producer. The film postscript reads: "After adjourning on the 14th August, the judges declared Eichmann responsible for the terrible conditions on board the trains to Auschwitz , and for obtaining Jews to fill those trains. Yaakov Jonilowicz View Yaakov Jonilowicz.

The daily films produced and directed by Milton Fruchtman and Leo Hurwitz constitute the world's first ever global television documentary series. It was the first time the horror of the Nazi death camps had been heard on television, from the mouths of eye witnesses and survivors. For his work on the Eichmann trial, Milton Fruchtman won a Peabody Award together with Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation,[3] and he went on to have a successful career in American television.

Leo Hurwitz continued to make documentary films. He went on to become Professor of Film and Chairman of the Graduate Institute of Film and Television at New York University."[4][unreliable source?]

References

  1. ^ abThe Eichmann Show - BBC Two
  2. ^"The Eichmann Show: New BBC film tells story behind trial's broadcast".

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    Milton fruchtman biography wikipedia Mrs Landau View Mrs Landau. Eichmann was, at 55, a normal looking man in suit and tie, however he was the epitome of evil. Plot [ edit ]. Contents move to sidebar hide.

    Amos Schocken. 21 January Archived from the original on 21 January Retrieved 18 March

  3. ^"Verdict for Tomorrow: The Eichmann Trial on Television". The Peabody Awards. Retrieved 22 April
  4. ^"The Eichmann Show". Retrieved 7 May

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