Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The Rape of Europa (2007)

Directors: Richard Berge, Nicole Newnman, and Bonni Cohen
Run Time: 116 min.

"On the surface, this dense, dynamic documentary, based on the book by Lynn H. Nicholas, takes on the high drama and difficult moral quandaries of Adolf Hitler's campaign to plunder the great artworks of Europe and the Allied effort to preserve and return them in the heat of World War II. But the story of Nazi Germany's industrialized pillage goes much deeper and the filmmakers expose a chilling facet of Hitler's final solution: the attempt to systematically eradicate Jewish and Slavic culture from top to bottom, as if to sweep away all vestiges of the races Hitler deemed inferior."
—Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post Intellgencer
 

Call Number:  K3791 .R37 2007