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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monzo" data-source="post: 417170" data-attributes="member: 19949">f you want to learn more about the Holocaust miniseries, the fifth most-watched miniseries in the history of US television, there is a 90 minute German documentary about it called "Wie Holocaust ins Fernsehen kam (How Holocaust came to television) ", in which part of the cast and crew are reunited.[MEDIA=youtube]gm4JQgmokQQ[/MEDIA]I learned a lot of interesting things from the documentary. Because of the Emmy Awards, I always thought that Holocaust was popular not only with audiences but also with critics in the US, but from the documentary I learned that there was criticism of the miniseries in the US too. The well-known Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was appalled that the subject was being made into a soap opera, as he called it. There was also criticism that the murder of the Jews was portrayed in such a way that one could think that the Jews themselves were to blame because of their passivity.Filming Holocaust was not easy for the cast. Michael Moriarty needed a psychiatrist, David Warner got eczema and Ian Holm got the measles.A large part of the documentary is devoted to the first broadcast of Holocaust on West German television in 1979. On the day of the premiere, two bomb attacks were carried out on television masts to prevent the broadcast (this happened again on premiere night of Dallas in 1981). After each episode of Holocaust there was a discussion session entitled "Anruf erwünscht (Call requested)", in which historians and journalists discussed the issue and more than 10,000 viewers called in. The Holocaust miniseries was also mentioned in the German Bundestag, shown in schools, and discussed in class.</blockquote>

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