New USA DVD cut? *** possible spoilers ***

Well, I watched part 2 tonight and the scene I was talking about is intact as I remember it. Also in part 2 is some nudity. So I guess it was a false alarm, and the original emotional impact is retained on the new DVD.

I'm not sure how to account for the discrepancy between the 475 minute length claimed for some versions of Holocaust vs the 459 on the new DVD. It can't be explained by, for example, the recaps at the top of each episode, because those are also present on the new DVD.

Another scene that didn't make the cut on the new DVD: the machinegun-and-grenade ambush of Heydrich's vehicle by partisan fighters. On the new DVD, this assassination attempt is only mentioned through Dorf's discovery of it after Heydrich has been ambushed. The ambush on Heydrich was included in the original NBC airing, as well as the 1978 novelization, which I used to have way back when.

Considering the integral role Heydrich played in the story, it's a shame this villainous character wasn't given a proper send-off. I can't recall if Heydrich's guilt-stricken, deathbed "ravings", over what he and his cohorts had done to the Jews, was featured in the original airing or not (again, it's only described, in the cut DVD, in later dialogue).

I also seem to recall a scene featuring Himmler's foiled escape attempt and capture by the Allies, followed by his suicide, via poison pill.

**taylorje: I well remember a scene that didn't make it to the DVD. It's at the end of the war, when the Nazi's are trying to hide traces of what they have done. Uncle Kurt, very sarcastically, tells Erik that a nearby building is filled with bags of hair from Jewish women and someone should burn it. They get into an argument when Kurt says he was worse than Erik because he stood by and did nothing. Erik looks at his uncle and says "I should have had you shot years ago."**

Actually the quote is, "I should strangle you as a favor to your father."

I just finished watching the DVD today and that scene is there.

However, the editing on the DVD is very choppy. I haven't seen it in years, so I'm not sure if any scenes are edited out or not.

I haven't seen this since the original broadcast in 1978...I was only 15. "Barely" old enough to watch due to mature content.

Side note: Roots was the first show I was permitted to watch that was "due to a mature matter, parental discretion advised" and I'm white.

Anyway, who cares what the timing is as long as it's all there.

because it was so long ago, the version I just watched seemed identical to the original...30 years, its hard to to remember the few minutes
for the seventies, it packed quite a wallop, I was impressed how it held up very well

I just received a copy of the DVD, which I haven't watched yet. But I still have a VHS copy, which includes the whole series on one tape. Was the tape edited to fit, too? I saw the series when it originally aired, but there's been too much water under my mental bridge for me to remember exactly what I saw on NBC.