Nazi Concentration Camps (1945)Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders. Director:George Stevens |
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Nazi Concentration Camps (1945)Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders. Director:George Stevens |
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Himself
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Jack Taylor | ... |
Himself - Camp Inmate
(as Lt. SG Jack H. Taylor USN)
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This film is the official documentary report compiled from over 80,000 feet of film shot by Allied military photographers in the German concentration camps immediately after liberation. The footage is a camp-by-camp record taken in order to provide lasting objective proof of the horrors the liberators witnessed. Some emphasis is also placed on the humanitarian work done in the camps by the liberators. Remarkably, the narration refers to the camp victims according to their country of origin only, and no mention of Jews is made. Written by National Center for Jewish Film
This sort of thing needs to be seen. Video evidence of what many simple and average people wouldn't ever dream possible in the first place. Around 10 000 000 altogether were killed in the camps and this video shows only a few of the many camps spread across Europe, mainly Dachau and I think Auschwitz. Footage of a young English soldier sitting on a bulldozer pushing piles of bodies into the graves because manual labour was taking too long has stayed with me for a fair while now, as it has my Grandfather for 60 years.
It's not exactly disturbing so much as necessary to see. Will hopefully improve your good/bad spectrum and help you to appreciate the better moments the longer they last.