Netflix Sets Release Date for Joe Berlinger’s Docuseries ‘Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor Netflix will debut Joe Berlinger‘s six-part docuseries “Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial,” about the Third Reich, on June 5.
Through the framing of the Nuremberg trials and eyewitness testimony of American journalist William L. Shirer, the series explores the rise and fall of Hitler and his enablers who were fueled through propaganda, censorship and a campaign of antisemitism.
Berlinger (“Paradise Lost,” “The Ted Bundy Tapes”) is in year four of a multi-year deal with Netflix. The director describes himself as a “culturally and ethnically Jewish man” who grew up in a “very secular home.” The Oscar nominee says that he owes his path to filmmaking “to my obsession with German history. “When I was a teenager, I was exposed to some of the Holocaust liberation footage that’s in the show,” says Berlinger. ” And like any young person who sees that footage, I was absolutely horrified.
After seeing this footage, I became obsessed with the idea that had I been born in that era, I would have been rounded up and murdered.
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