Die Fernsehserie "Holocaust" als Medienereignis

'Although there had been earlier promises to come to terms with the Nazi-past in West Germany after 1945, the casting of the TV mini-series 'Holocaust' in January 1979 has been considered as a real breakthrough. The mini-series had been produced in the United States under the rules of a commercial TV-system. It tells the story of the persecution of Jews in Nazi-Germany taking two families as an ex…