"Surprising Beginnings" and "Orders & Initiatives" (Episodes 1 & 2)
Written and Produced by
LAURENCE REES
Narrated by
LINDA HUNT
Historical and Script Consultant for the series
PROFESSOR SIR IAN KERSHAW
Historical Consultants for the series
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER BROWNING
PROFESSOR DAVID CESARANI
PROFESSOR ROBERT JAN VAN PELT
DR. DIETER POHL
DR. PIOTR SETKIEWICZ
Additional Historical Consultants
DR. IVAN KAMENEC
DR. BOGDAN MUSIAL
DR. EDUARD NIZNANSKY
LUCJA PAWLICKA-NOWAK
DR. FRANCISZEK PIPER
DR. MARIAN TURSKI
PETER WITTE
Additional Historical Research
DR. ANDREJ ANGRICK, MARTIN CÜPPERS
JADWIGA DABROWSKA, PETER KLEIN
ANNA MACHCEWICZ, JACEK MLYNARCZYK
MIROSLAW OBSTARCZYK, WOJCIECH PLOSA,
DR. VOLKER RIESS, DR SERGEY SLUCH,
KAZIMIERZ SMOLEN, DR. HENRYK SWIEBOCKI
The BBC wishes to thank
DR. MICHAEL ALBERTI,
KAZIMIERZ ALBIN, DR. JOCHEN AUGUST
WLADYSLAW BARTOSZEWSKI, DR. BORIS BÖHM
WILHELM BRASSE, HALINA ELCZEWSKA,
WLADYSLAW FOLTYN
ABRAHAM & ESTER FRISCHER
NIELS GUTSCHOW, DR. UTE HOFFMAN
MATILDA HRABOVECKA,
WANDA HUTNY, GEJZA MIKLAS
MIROSLAW OBSTARCZYK
KRYSTYNA OLEKSY, HUBERT ROGOZINSKI
JÓZEF STÓS, DR. TATJANA TONSMEYER
FORSCHUNGSSTELLE FUR ZEITGESCHICHTE IN HAMBURG
DEZIDER TOTH
ROMAN TROJANOWSKI
STAROSTWO POWIATOWE W PIASECECZINE
ZYDOWSKI INSTYTUT HISTORYCZNY WARSAW
Film, Picture and Document Archives
ARCHIWUM PANSTWOWEGO MUZEUM W OSWIECIMIU,
AKG IMAGES,
ARCHIV KARL HÖFFKES,
BAYERISCHE STAATSBIBLIOTHEK
BILDARCHIV WALTER FRENTZ,
BRITISH LIBRARY, BUNDESARCHIV, LA CAMERA STYLO
DEUTSCHES RUNDFUNKARCHIV,
FILMARCHIV HIRSCH
FREYTAG & BERNDT,
GEDENKSTATTE HAUS DER WANNSEE-KONFERENZ
GHETTO FIGHTERS' HOUSE,
HENNIE WIENER, INSTITUT FÜR ZEITUNGSFORSCHUNG
INSTYTUT PAMIECI NARODOWEJ WARSAW
JUDISCHES MUSEUM FRANKFURT, LANDESFILMARCHIV HAMBURG
MAGYAR FILMINTEZET,
MUZEUM SLOVENSKEHO NARODNEHO POVSTANIA,
POLITISCHES ARCHIV DES AUSWARTIGEN AMTS
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
RUSSIAN STATE ARCHIVE FOR FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTS
RUSSIAN STATE ARCHIVE FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY,
SLOVENSKA TELEVIZIA, SLOVENSKY NARODNY ARCHIV,
SLOVENSKY FILMOVY USTAV
STAATSARCHIV NÜRNBERG
STADTARCHIV NURNBERG
STADTARCHIV STUTTGART, TRANSIT FILM GMBH
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES, TRANSIT FILM GMBH
ULLSTEIN BILD, WALTER FRENTZ ARCHIVEv
THE WIENER LIBRARY, YAD VASHEM
CAST
In Surprising Beginnings
Rudolph Hoss
HORST-GÜNTHER MARX
Heinrich Himmler
KLAUS MIKOLEIT
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
ANDRZEJ ZÓLKIEWSKI
IN ORDERS & INITIATIVES
HORST-GUNTHER MARX, DETLEF BOTHE, CHRISTOPH HAGEN DITTMANN,
MAREK KASPRZYK, EDWARD ZENTARA, SLAWOMIR GLAZEK, STANISLAW GORKA, ADAM KAMIEN, KRYSTIAN NEHREBECKI, WLODZIMIERZ PRESS
Asssistant Directors
WERONIKA MIGON,
PIOTR SZCZERBIC
Set Designer
EWA SKOCZKOWSKA
Costumes
ANDRZEJ SZENAJCH
Drama Production Company
MS FILMS
Photography
MARTIN PATMORE
PIOTR SLISKOWSKI
SERGEY ASTAKHOV
Sound
BRIAN BIFFIN
JACEK HAMELA
CHRIS GRAVER
Graphics
JOHN KENNEDY
THE MOVING PICTURE COMPANY
Graphics Director
DOMINIC SUTHERLAND
Picture Archive Research
DECLAN SMITH
JOANNE KING
Production Managers
EMILY BROWNRIDGE
LAURA DAVEY
Production Co-Ordinators
CARA GOOLD
REBECCA MAIDENS
Research
ANNA TABORSKA
DUSAN HUDEC
MICHAELA LIECHTENSTEIN
SAULIUS BERZINIS
WOLF GEBHARDT
TARAS SHUMEIKO
DR. FRANK STUCKE
ELENA YAKOVLEVA
Assistant Producer
TANYA BATCHELOR
Film Editor
ALAN LYGO
Documentary Directors
DOMINIC SUTHERLAND
MARTINA BALAZOVA
Drama Director
DETLEF SIEBERT
FOR KCET
Co-Producer
DAVID ORENSTEIN
Edited by
JACK MOODY
Narration Record
Buzzy's Recording
ANDREW MORRIS
Production Assistant
KATHERINE CHEAIRS
Academic Consultants
STEVEN FEINBERG
Director of National Outreach
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum
HARVEY J. FIELDS
Rabbi Emeritus, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles
DOUGLAS GREENBERG
President and Chief Executive Office
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
DR. DAVID G. MARWELL Ph.D
Museum Director, The Museum of Jewish Heritage
MARGOT STERN STROM
Executive Director and President
The Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation
Director of Education and Outreach
TOBY LEVINE
Unit Manager
BETTINA BENNEWITZ
Legal Counsel
SUSAN REARDON
JUNE M. BALDWIN
Producer for European Co-Productions
MEGAN CALLAWAY
Production Executive
KAREN ROBINSON HUNTE
Series Executive Producer
MARY MAZUR
These programs were produced by KCET/Hollywood/BBC which are solely responsible for their content.
A KCET Hollywood/BBC Co-Production
©2005 BBC
Epilogue:
Hosted by
LINDA ELLERBEE
Written and Produced by
MEGAN CALLAWAY
Directed by
CATHERINE TATGE
"Factories of Death" and "Corruption" (Episodes 3 & 4)
Written and Produced by
LAURENCE REES
Narrated by
LINDA HUNT
Historical and Script Consultant for the Series
PROFESSOR SIR IAN KERSHAW
Historical Consultants for the Series
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER BROWNING
PROFESSOR DAVID CESARANI
PROFESSOR ROBERT JAN VAN PELT
DR. DIETER POHL
DR. PIOTR SETKIEWICZ
Additional Historical Consultants
AKTION REINHARD CAMPS FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL
FREDDIE COHEN, DR. GIDEON GREIF, EDWARD KOPÓWKA,
DR. SERGE KLARSFELD, DR. ALEKSANDER LASIK,
DR. FRANCISZEK PIPER, ROBERT SOMMER
Additional Historical Research
DR. ANDREJ ANGRICK, ADAM CYRA,
JADWIGA DABROWSKA, HELENA KUBICA,
JACEK MLYNARCZYK, MIROSLAW OBSTARCZYK,
WOJCIECH PLOSA,
DR. VOLKER RIESS, JOAN RINGELHEIM
ROBERT SOMMER,
SILKE STRUCK, DR. HENRYK SWIEBOCKI,
JACEK SZWIC, ROMAN ZBRZESKI
The BBC wishes to thank
AMICALE DES DÉPORTÉS D'AUSCHWITZ, ASSOCIATION FONDS POUR LA MÉMOIRE D'AUSCHWITZ, IGOR BARTOSIK, ADAM BARTOSZ, MAREK BEM, FRICO BREDER, ANDRÉ CHOMAND, MAREK EDELMAN, RACHEL FADLON, WLADYSLAW FOLTYN, ABRAHAM GAFNI, ADAM GAWLIK, ABRAM KOLSKI,
JOHN J. HARTMAN, WANDA HUTNY, JERZY HRONOWSKI, BENJZMIN JACOBS, NORMAN JAFFE, AHRON KARMI, BOLESLAW KIERSKI, KRYSTYNA KORWIN-MIKKE, BENT LERNO, GERD LILIENFELDT, EBE MAN, JENS MUELLER, BRONISLAWA NAFALSKA, ZYGMUNT NAFALSKI, JO NISENMAN, MIROSLAW OBSTARCZYK, KRYSTYNA OLEKSY, MARIUSZ JERZY OLBROMSKI , KRYSTYNA OLEKSY, JOAN RINGELHEIM, KAZIMIERZ SMOLEN, PETER SOMOGYI, STAROSTWO POWIATOWE W PIASECZNIE, SIMCHA STEIN, TOWARZYSTWO OPIEKI NAD OSWIECIMIEM, DR. MARTIN TURSKI, DR. JERZY WRÓBLEWSKI, ZYDOWSKI INSTYTUT HISTORYCZNY WARSAW
Film, Picture and Document Archives
ARCHIWUM PANSTWOWEGO MUZEUM W OSWIECIMIU,
ARCHIV KARL HÖFFKES, BRITISH LIBRARY, BUNDESARCHIV, CAMERA PRESS/SCANPIX, LA CAMERA STYLO, CENTRE DE DOCUMENTATION JUIVE CONTEMPORAINE, DANMARKS RADIO, FREYTAG & BERNDT, EDGAR GÖWERT, GUERNSEY ARCHIVES SERVICE, FOX-MOVIETONE NEWS, IMAGES OF WAR , KLARSFELD/FFDJF, J. FRED MACDONALD, THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, POLITISCHES ARCHIV DES AUSWARTIGEN AMT, SVERIGES TELEVISION, TRANSIT FILM, UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM, WALTER FRENTZ ARCHIVE, THE WIENER LIBRARY, WYTWÓRNIA FILMÓW DOKUMENTALNYCH I FABULARNYCH,
YAD VASHEM
Cast
NICOLAS KÖNIG, IGOR KUJAWSKI
HORST-GÜNTHER MARX, TOMASZ MIKOLAJEWSKI
KLAUS MIKOLEIT,
ZBIGNIEW MOSKAL, ROMAN PIETAKIEWICZ
MARCIN SITEK, ANDY SNOWBALL, BORYS SZYC
OLIVIER YTHIER, JACEK KRAUTFORST,
GRAZYNA BLECKA-KOLSKA, JANUSZ CHABIOR
DAVID GABISON, PIOTR KAZMIERCZAK, DARIUSZ LEMIESZEK
JOANNA KRÓL, ZBYSZEK SUSZYNSKI, WIESLAW KOWALSKI,
WITOLD BIELINSKI, MARTA DABROWA, KLAUS ZEJDLER
Assistant Directors
WERONIKA MIGON
MAREK CYDOROWICZ
Set Designer
EWA SKOCZKOWSKA
Costumes
ANDRZEJ SZENAJCH
Drama Production Company
MS FILMS
Photography
MARTIN PATMORE
PATRICK DUVAL
NILI ASLAN
KRZYSZTOF GOLABEK
ROSS KEITH
JACEK PETRYCKI
Sound
BRIAN BIFFIN
JACEK HAMELA
CHRIS GRAVER
MERCE WILLIAMS
RAMI YATZKAN
Colourist
DAVE HAWLEY
Graphics
JOHN KENNEDY
THE MOVING PICTURE COMPANY
Graphics Director
DOMINIC SUTHERLAND
Picture Archive Research
DECLAN SMITH
Production Managers
EMILY BROWNRIDGE
LAURA DAVEY
Production Coordinators
CARA GOOLD
REBECCA MAIDENS
Research
DR. FRANK STUCKE
ADELINE SUARD
ANNA TABORSKA
ADAM LEVY
DUSAN HUDEC
MICHAELA LIECHTENSTEIN
NAVA MIZRAHI
ELENA YAKOVLEVA
Assistant Producer
TANYA BATCHELOR
Film Editor
ALAN LYGO
Documentary Directors
DOMINIC SUTHERLAND
MARTINA BALAZOVA
Drama Director
DETLEF SIEBERT
FOR KCET
Co-Producer
DAVID ORENSTEIN
Edited by
JACK MOODY
Narration Record
Buzzy's Recording
ANDREW MORRIS
Production Assistant
KATHERINE CHEAIRS
Academic Consultants
STEVEN FEINBERG
Director of National Outreach
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum
HARVEY J. FIELDS
Rabbi Emeritus, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles
DOUGLAS GREENBERG
President and Chief Executive Officer
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
DR. DAVID G. MARWELL Ph.D
Museum Director, The Museum of Jewish Heritage
MARGOT STERN STROM
Executive Director and President
The Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation
Director of Education and Outreach
TOBY LEVINE
Unit Manager
BETTINA BENNEWITZ
Legal Counsel
SUSAN REARDON
JUNE M. BALDWIN
Producer for European Co-Productions
MEGAN CALLAWAY
Production Executive
KAREN ROBINSON HUNTE
Series Executive Producer
MARY MAZUR
These programs were produced by KCET/Hollywood/BBC which are solely responsible for their content.
A KCET Hollywood/BBC Co-Production
©2005 BBC
Epilogue:
Hosted by
LINDA ELLERBEE
Written and Produced by
MEGAN CALLAWAY
Directed by
CATHERINE TATGE
"Murder & Intrigue" and "Liberation & Revenge" (Episodes 5 & 6)
Written and Produced by
LAURENCE REES
Narrated by
LINDA HUNT
Historical and Script Consultant for the Series
PROFESSOR SIR IAN KERSHAW
Historical Consultants for the Series
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER BROWNING
PROFESSOR DAVID CESARANI
PROFESSOR ROBERT JAN VAN PELT
DR. DIETER POHL
DR. PIOTR SETKIEWICZ
Additional Historical Consultants
DR. GIDEON GREIF
DR. ALEKSANDER LASIK
MIROSLAW OBSTARCZYK
DR. FRANCISZEK PIPER
GERALD L. POSNER
DR. ANDRZEJ STRZELECKI
Additional Historical Research
MIROSLAW OBSTARCZYK
WOJCIECH PLOSA
DR. VOLKER RIESS
LÁSZLÓ RITTER
SILKE STRUCK
DR. HENRYK SWIEBOCKI
ULRICH VOLKLEIN
The BBC wishes to thank
YEHUDA BACON, ELSE BAKER,
GEDENKSTATTE BERGEN-BELSEN
EDYTA CHOWANIEC, ANNA CZARNIK,
RÓZA DEUTSCH,
LÁSZLÓ DEVECSERI,
DOKUMENTATIONS UND KULTURZENTRUM DEUTSCHER SINTI UND ROMA, TOVA FRIED, WALTER FRIED, THOMAS FRIEDRICH,
KATALINA FRIEDMANN, EPHRAIM GLASER,
KATÓ GYULAI, ANDRZEJ IGLENIE, PIOTR IGLENIE,
SUZY KASTNER,
MORRIS KESSELMAN, IVAN MARTYNUSHKIN,
ORNAN LEV-ARY, KRYSTYNA OLEKSY,
JAN PIWCZYK,
LEMKE PLISHKO,
STAROSTWO POWIATOWE W OSWIECIMIU,
STAROSTWO POWIATOWE W PIASECZNIE,
STOWARZYSZENIE ROMÓW W POLSCE,
DOROTA ROMANOWSKA, CHARLES SALT, RENEE SALT
SERGEY SLUTCH
JACOV TSUR, DR. JERZY WRÓBLEWSKI
JOZEFA ZIELINSKA
Film, Picture and Document Archives
ARCHIWUM PANSTWOWEGO MUZEUM W OSWIECIMIU,
BRITISH LIBRARY, BUNDESARCHIV,
DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU GMBH
FOOTAGE FARM,
FDR PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY,
FILMARCHIV AUSTRIA, THE GEORGE STEVENS COLLECTION,
GETTY IMAGES,
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
INSTYTUT PAMIECI NARODOWEZ WARSAW
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
MAC DONALD AND ASSOCIATES,
MAGYAR NEMZETI FILMARCHIVUM, MAGYAR NEMZETI MÚZEUM,
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
RUSSIAN STATE ARCHIVE OF FILM AND PHOTO DOCUMENTS
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY,
UKRAINIAN CENTRAL STATE ARCHIVE FOR FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTS, U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES,
WALTER FRENTZ ARCHIVE
THE WIENER LIBRARY,
YAD VASHEM, ZVI AHARONI
Cast
GRAZYNA BLECKA-KOLSKA
HORST-GÜNTHER MARX, KLAUS MIKOLEIT
MIKOLAJ MULLER, GORDON PATRICK NEWELL
HENRYK RAJFER
ANTON RATTINGER, HEINRICH SCHMIEDER
EWA DABROWSKA, SLAWEK HOLLAND, ADAM HUTYRA
ADAM MARJANSKI, ANDRZEJ NIEMIRSKI,
JAN PIECHOCINSKI, ROBERT WABICH,
ZBIGNIEW WRÓBEL, TOMASZ ZARÓD
KLAUS ZEJDLER, MAREK ZERANSKI, ILJA ZMIEJEW
GENNARO CANFORA, JAROSLAW KOPACZEWSKI
Assistant Directors
WERONIKA MIGON
MAREK CYDOROWICZ
Set Design
EWA SKOCZKOWSKA
Costumes
ANDRZEJ SZENAJCH
Drama Production Company
MS FILMS
Photography
MARTIN PATMORE
PATRICK DUVAL
DAVID SAVAGE
NILI ASLAN
SERGEY ASTAKHOV
ROBERT MLECZKO
Sound
BRIAN BIFFIN
JACEK HAMELA
CHRIS GRAVER
PAUL DAHLSEID
RAMI YATZKAN
COLIN SOLLOWAY
STUDIO BABELSBERG
Colorist
DAVE HAWLEY
Online Editors
NICK CARROL, EVAN CLANCY,
ANDREW FRAMPTON, NICK PETO,
NICK PITT, JOHN SILLITO,
KEN SOUTHERN
ADRIAN UDAL, MALCOLM WARNER
Dubbing Mixer
CHRIS GRAVER
Rostrum Camera
LAURIE CONLON
Graphics
JOHN KENNEDY
THE MOVING PICTURE COMPANY
Archive and Picture Research
DECLAN SMITH
Production Team
MICHELLE GRIBBON, SARAH HALL
SALLY JOHNSON, RUSSELL MASTERS
Production Managers
LYNN HYDE
EMILY BROWNRIDGE
Production Coordinators
CARA GOOLD
REBECCA MAIDENS
Research
ANNA TABORSKA
DR. KRISZTINA FENYÖ
DAVID LIST
DUSAN HUDEC, ADAM LEVY
MICHAELA LIECHTENSTEIN
NAVA MIZRAHI, SILVIA SACCO
DR. FRANK STUCKE
LENA YAKOVLEVA
Assistant Producer
TANYA BATCHELOR
Film Editor
ALAN LYGO
Documentary Director
MARTINA BALAZOVA
DOMINIC SUTHERLAND
Drama Director
DETLEF SIEBERT
FOR KCET
Co-Producer
DAVID ORENSTEIN
Edited by
JACK MOODY
Narration Record
Buzzy's Recording
ANDREW MORRIS
Production Assistant
KATHERINE CHEAIRS
Academic Consultants
STEVEN FEINBERG
Director of National Outreach
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum
HARVEY J. FIELDS
Rabbi Emeritus, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles
DOUGLAS GREENBERG
President and Chief Executive Officer
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
DR. DAVID G. MARWELL Ph.D
Museum Director, The Museum of Jewish Heritage
MARGOT STERN STROM
Executive Director and President
The Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation
Director of Education and Outreach
TOBY LEVINE
Unit Manager
BETTINA BENNEWITZ
Legal Counsel
SUSAN REARDON
JUNE M. BALDWIN
Producer for European Co-Productions
MEGAN CALLAWAY
Production Executive
KAREN ROBINSON HUNTE
Series Executive Producer
MARY MAZUR
These programs were produced by KCET/Hollywood/BBC which are solely responsible for their content.
A KCET Hollywood/BBC Co-Production
©2005 BBC
Epilogue:
Hosted by
LINDA ELLBERBEE
Written and Produced by
MEGAN CALLAWAY
Directed by
CATHERINE TATGE