Hitler's Holocaust Railways with Chris Tarrant - Channel 5

By Mandy Cooper
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Hitler's Holocaust Railways with Chris Tarrant

Chris Tarrant explores the use of trains in transporting millions of prisoners to ghettos and death camps during the Holocaust. Featuring contributions from survivors

Hitler’s Holocaust Railways with Chris Tarrant.

Chris Tarrant travels across Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland on a harrowing investigation into how Hitler used the railways to transport millions of Jews to their deaths in World War Two.

Hitler's Holocaust Railways wth Christ Tarrant

For the Jews boarding Hitler's trains their final destination was unknown...

As well as exploring the history of the railways under the Nazis, he meets people with personal stories, including Arek (pictured above with Chris), who was bundled off a train at Auschwitz to await his fate – to be selected for work or die in the gas chambers.

The shocking conclusion to this film is that without railways there would have been no war and no Holocaust.

TV Times rating: *****

Mandy Cooper
Mandy Cooper
TV Times Highlights Editor

As TV Times Highlights Editor I get to hear about all the latest TV shows coming soon. Here at TVT HQ we are in the privileged position of selecting the best programmes from across all the channels and streaming platforms. Our mission is to make it easier for our readers to decide what to watch - and give them lots of choice of genres - all the latest shows, plus some nostalgic choices we call hidden gems, too. My career began with a postgraduate degree in periodical journalism (ahem, yes old school!) in 1991 and I’ve worked in TV media since 2000.