Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution', is a BBC six-episode documentary film series presenting the story of Auschwitz through interviews with former inmates and guards and re-enactments, first televised on BBC One on 11 January 2005. The series prominently featured the music of Górecki's Symphony No. 3, Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel and the Sarabande from Handel's Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in D minor, HWV 437. In the United States, this series first aired on PBS television stations as Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State in early 2005 and was released, under that title, in a... 2-DVD box set , by BBC Warner, on 29 March 2005. The series uses four principal elements: rarely seen contemporary film from archives, interviews with survivors such as Dario Gabbai and former Nazis such as Oskar Gröning, computer-generated reconstructions of buildings now demolished, and re-enactments of meetings and other events. These are linked by modern footage of locations in and around the site of the Auschwitz camp.
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| On the air: | January 11, 2005 |