The Sixth Battalion (1998)

Genre

biographical film

How it feels

This documentary shows how Jewish soldiers fought for the Slovak Republic during World War II. It uses interviews and archival footage to explain the history of that state and the rise of antisemitism that affected these soldiers.

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What happens

The Sixth Battalion is a 1998 documentary film that examines the history of Jewish soldiers who fought for the Slovak Republic, a puppet state created by Nazi Germany, during World War II. The documentary combines interviews with archival footage and photographs of the Slovak Republic in order to provide a brief history of the state, exploring the rise of antisemitism and how it affected these Jewish soldiers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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