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Essay heading: Documentary films have played an important part in determining the way we construct history and memory. In what ways do documentary films dealing with the holocaust determine contemporary understandings of that historical event?
 
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From initial shock, greater acceptance of the Jewish persecution, and eventual understanding of broader European and social complicity in the events of the Holocaust, the contemporary audience appreciates not only the immensity of the systematic killing but takes on an individual role in the evolving understanding and shaping of the social historical record through documentary film...
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The film explores issues of remembrance, responsibility and history through its edifying use of archival footage. Resnais structures the documentary with fourteen brief colour segments showing Auschwitz in 1955 interrupted by thirteen black and white newsreels, photographs and other visual documents...
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