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For obvious reasons, the Holocaust was of profound interest to filmmakers behind the Iron Curtain. Eastern Europe was the region that had suffered most from the Nazi invasion and occupation. Over 1.5 million Poles were slaughtered by the Germans during the war, and, of course, the vast majority of exterminated Jews came from the Eastern European heartland â about 250,000 from Czechoslovakia, 3 million from Poland and hundreds of thousands more from Hungary. They were systematically murdered â first by paramilitary death squads called Einsatzgruppen. They operated in cooperation with the German army and local collaborators, and murdered around 1.3 million Jews in mass shootings and pogroms between in the early years of the war. ....