The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again. The history of European Jewish culture and events before and during the Holocaust are seen in newsreels, photographs, and animated segments. The words of the victims of the era are read, and footage from the liberation os a concentration camp is shown.
Genocide cast
Elizabeth Taylor
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Orson Welles
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Simon Wiesenthal
Character:
Self
Neville Chamberlain
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Character:
Self (archive footage) (as Josef Goebbels)
Hermann Göring
Character:
Self - at Nuremberg Trials (archive footage)
Rudolf Hess
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Ralph Metcalfe
Character:
Self - in 100m Final at the 1936 Olympics (archive footage)
Martinus Osendarp
Character:
Self - in 100m Final at the 1936 Olympics (archive footage)
Jesse Owens
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Pope Pius XII
Character:
Self (archive footage) (as The Pope)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Character:
Self (archive footage) (as Franklin Deleno Roosevelt)