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Modus Operandi
The German Occupation of Belgium
| Length: | 98 min |
| Released: | 2011 |
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From 1942 to 1944, nearly twenty-five thousand Jewish men, women, and children were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. Fewer than fifteen hundred survived.
Modus Operandi raises and systematically answers the question: How did just a handful of Nazis, with the help—voluntary or unwitting—of the Belgian authorities, bring about their destruction? It covers the sequence of events and different phases that led to the Final Solution, including the identification of the Jewish population, their socioeconomic exclusion, wearing of the yellow star, and raids during August and September 1942, deportations, rescue actions, arrests of Jews with Belgian passports, and methodical murder.
This film adeptly chronicles the complex story of Nazi-era Belgium and recognizes the population’s concern about its own survival, a factor which enabled the Nazis to carry out their anti-Semitic policies. Modus Operandi is an indispensable documentary for understanding the tragic events of World War II.
Modus Operandi raises and systematically answers the question: How did just a handful of Nazis, with the help—voluntary or unwitting—of the Belgian authorities, bring about their destruction? It covers the sequence of events and different phases that led to the Final Solution, including the identification of the Jewish population, their socioeconomic exclusion, wearing of the yellow star, and raids during August and September 1942, deportations, rescue actions, arrests of Jews with Belgian passports, and methodical murder.
This film adeptly chronicles the complex story of Nazi-era Belgium and recognizes the population’s concern about its own survival, a factor which enabled the Nazis to carry out their anti-Semitic policies. Modus Operandi is an indispensable documentary for understanding the tragic events of World War II.
"With this historic documentary history has been written, literally and figuratively."
‒ Freddy Sartor, Filmagie
"Modus Operandi is as much a film on current events as an historical documentary, as it shows so forcefully that once a finger is caught in the gears of stigmatisation and demonisation, the whole body may eventually go through the works."
‒Fernand Denis, La Libre Belgique (***)
‒ Freddy Sartor, Filmagie
"Modus Operandi is as much a film on current events as an historical documentary, as it shows so forcefully that once a finger is caught in the gears of stigmatisation and demonisation, the whole body may eventually go through the works."
‒Fernand Denis, La Libre Belgique (***)
