One of the best series about The Holocaust was “War and Remembrance.” They could have seriously taken the whole Jastrow storyline and made it its’ own series, rather than the rest of the soap opera-ish storylines involving Pug. Gielgud’s portrayal of the doomed Jastrow was one of the most amazing performances ever. And the scenes were as brutal as anything ever put to film.
I watched ‘Night Will Fall’ last night. It was hard to watch, but not as hard as if Hitchcock and Bernstein were able to actually edit and cut their own movie, which they did not.
In the end, the project died because the Russians flipped from ally to adversary so quickly, and Churchill had reckoned that in very short order, Germany would make a suitable ally themselves.
He was a smart guy.
More on Heydrich. Both Himmler and Hitler found out that Heydrich was Jewish. Hitler met, at length, over an hour, with Heydrich personally on the issue. In the end, Hitler decided (above Himmler’s protestations (mild ones)) that the act of not only sparing but backing Heydrich would win his undying fealty.
It did. Heydrich was willing to do anything and everything. He was a perfect number two to Himmler, and Himmler really had issues when Heydrich died. Spread way too thin.