El caso Menten

Absorbing true story about a Dutch journalist attempting to expose the evil attrocities carried out on Jews in wartime Poland during world war 2. Pieter Menten is now a wealthy business man who started his empire with money from stolen art works. While the flashbacks to the 1940's are not especially graphic, they still convey the horrifying reality of the inhumane and cruel treatment handed out. With just three episodes it moves at a brisk pace and kept my interest throughout. The investigation takes place in 1976, and although I was an adult at that time I do not remember the story, maybe it was not widely reported in the UK.

What made it more potent for me was that I watched it just after the horrific massacre in Israel on the 7/10 which has been reported as the worst attack on Jews since the holocaust. A reminder that evil anti semites are still with us.