Holocaust - Season 1 - Eps 1: The Gathering Darkness

Name: Eps 1: The Gathering Darkness
Released: 1978-04-16
Rating: 3.7

1978-04-16 • 85 min • ⭐ 7.4/10

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 to apply for a Nazi regime job. Erik Dorf warns Dr. Weiss he should leave Germany. Karl is arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, and Dr. Weiss is deported to Poland. Erik Dorf continues to advance in the Nazi hierarchy.

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About Holocaust

Title: Holocaust

First Air Date: 1978-04-16

Last Air Date: 1978-04-19

Status: Ended

Rating: 7.4/10 (from 65 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 1

Total Episodes: 4

Network: NBC

Genres: Drama, War & Politics

Production Companies: Titus Productions

Synopsis

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the storms of World War II and the horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious lawyer, undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.