Episode guide
Holocaust: Miniseries
4 episodes · first aired Apr 16, 1978
Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a young Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a beautiful Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the terrifying maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the tragic storms of World War II and the unspeakable horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious but wimpy lawyer undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.
- 1 The Gathering Darkness Apr 16, 1978 · 1h 26m Berlin, Germany, 1935. The Weisses, a Jewish family, celebrate son Karl's marriage to Inga Helms, a Christian girl. When Erik Dorf is unable to find work as a lawyer, wife Marta urges him…
- 2 The Road To Babi Yar Apr 17, 1978 · 1h 31m Inga is desperate to reunite with Karl, but her parents do not want to risk hiding her Jewish in-laws. Rudi runs away from their hiding place. Erik Dorf helps Heydrich plan and execute his…
- 3 The Final Solution Apr 18, 1978 · 1h 30m Rudi and Helena escape from a long procession of Jews being marched into Babi Yar. They are eventually rescued from a hayloft by a group of Jewish partisans. Erik Dorf attends a top-level…
- 4 The Saving Remnant Apr 19, 1978 · 1h 29m Erik Dorf complains to the other SS leaders that the executions of the Jews are not being efficiently done. An order is placed by Erik for Zyklon B (a lethal gas) for use at Auschwitz and…