Getting Away with Murder(s)

I had always presumed once Joseph Mengele escaped to Argentina that he remained in South America until his death. Not so. The truth about were he went and when and who he visited is truly disturbing. GETTING AWAY WITH MURDERS lays bare many uncomfortable truths - perhaps too many for some, especially those who try to deny that the holocaust ever happened.

Good documentaries tell stories, the best ones are films that the viewer learns from. And there is a lot to take in here. Emotion is overwhelming; anger and shame against compassion and sorrow.

This film really should form part of the school curriculum in the UK and beyond. Everything revealed within it could all so easily happen again, especially now in our post-truth age.

GETTING AWAY WITH MURDERS is essential viewing.

I had known for a couple of years that Mr. Wilkinson was in the throes of trying to get this documentary made, though the original conception I believe was eighteen years old altogether. I had done some 'magpie' research regarding The Holocaust myself and had questioned the how and why's of how a whole nation seemingly had turned into a huge killing machine and similarly the virus of Nazism had been transmitted across Europe, so much so that thousands of others had been either been recruited or volunteered themselves for the most terrible of crimes against humanity. The 'mystery' of the how's and whys are revealed here in this most extensive and painful documentary. It makes for difficult viewing and lays out as clearly as it can the whole gamut of what happened and the reasons why millions of innocent Jews and others were eliminated and how only 1 percent of those responsible were ever put on trial. You will have to watch it for yourselves to untangle the whole terrible web of horror and the equally terrible injustice not given to the Jewish people after the war. One thing you can take away from it is the warning that we have so often been given. How ordinary men (for these were not monsters) turned their back on their fellow man, murdered innocent men women and children for a toxic belief in the hateful dogma of the other being inferior and different to you and amounting to no more than the life of a beetle you would crush beneath your feet and that these same people could then return back to civilian life and allowed to live out their lives, a luxury not afforded to their victims.

I thought I knew all about the Holocaust. I was wrong. I left the cinema with tears of rage and sadness. Three hours flew by with an increasing build as interviews and scenes from the time and the present day added layer upon layer of evidence, fact and pain. A beautifully shot and compelling film which will stay with me.

'Getting Away With Murder'...remarkable and revelatory, a brilliantly unique, in depth and illuminating journey into the heart of darkness that was the Third Reich. For the first time, a truly detailed and fascinating account of the perpetrators of the Holocaust, chronicling the other 'survivors' who shepherded a nation's descent into a nightmare of unparalleled proportions, one of the darkest events in the history of mankind. A ground breaking tour de force, the film is an unprecedented examination of those among the nearly one million people behind one of the greatest crimes against humanity ever...those who literally, 'got away with murder'.

"Getting Away with Murder(s)" : Is a phenomenal breakthrough documentary In that it starts playing with form, length and approach. I can not recommend David Nicholas Wilkinson's documentary highly enough. The film is about how 99% of Nazi genocide planners walked away, scot free, after WWII. It is not only moving, harrowing and instinctively powerful, it is a timely reminder of modern secret histories, and how governments rewriting the past allows atrocities to continue in to the future. It is David's most critically acclaimed work after decades of independent integrity within our film industry and is making Critic's several best films list for 2021. As a documentary maker myself I say it sets a new high bar for British documentaries.