If it isn't immediately apparent, it becomes clear quickly enough that Ausländer is a figure apart: one of the Sonderkommando, the special squads of death camp inmates forced to assist in the extermination process by cleaning gas chambers, disposing of corpses, shepherding prisoners and the like.
Compelling our attendance in a very different respect are the blurry, clandestine photographs shot at Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944, by a Sonderkommando, one of the prisoners forced to assist in the exterminations, a Greek Jew known as Alex.
László Nemes's intensely powerful, troubling, brilliantly directed first feature is a sobering reinvention of Holocaust cinema, depicting Auschwitz through the eyes of a prisoner forced to assist in the exterminations.
The subject is the Holocaust, as experienced by a Jewish prisoner assisting the Nazis in the extermination of his fellow inmates – a job as grim and conflicting as it sounds.
Assisting in the preservation of materials.
Klaatu's job is to assist, calmly and methodically, in the extermination of the human race, a task he tries, with evident fatigue, to explain to his hysterical, violent would-be victims.
The NSB's enthusiastic collusion in the extermination of 75% of the Netherlands's Jews didn't help.
The study's principal findings indicating that a nuclear holocaust could result in"the extermination of Homo Sapiens".
Jeckeln corroborated the central role of the Sipo in the extermination of the Gypsies.
In Yellowstone, the extermination of wolves caused the elk population to explode.
