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Death Mills

Original title: Die Todesmühlen
  • 19451945
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  • 22m
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Death Mills (1945)
  • Documentary
  • Short
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermi... Read allOriginally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film inc... Read allOriginally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film includes accounts of the economic aspects of the camps' operation, the interrogation of captu... Read all
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  • Directors
    • Hans Burger
    • Billy Wilder
  • Writers
    • Hans Burger
    • Oskar Seidlin(narration text)
  • Star
    • Anton Reimer(voice)
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  • Directors
    • Hans Burger
    • Billy Wilder
  • Writers
    • Hans Burger
    • Oskar Seidlin(narration text)
  • Star
    • Anton Reimer(voice)
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    • 3Critic reviews
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      • Hans Burger
      • Billy Wilder
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      • Hans Burger
      • Oskar Seidlin(narration text)
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    • Trivia
      Included in the Blu-Ray of the Orson Welles' film "The Stranger" (Kino)
    • Crazy credits
      Placed both at the beginning and at the end of the film: This film will not be shown to the general public without permission of the War Department
    • Alternate versions
      There is an Italian DVD edition of the film, distributed by DNA Srl: "I MULINI DELLA MORTE". The film was re-edited with the contribution of the film history scholar Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available in streaming on some platforms. This DVD also contains another film by Hitchcock: "Aventure malgache" (1944).
    • Connections
      Featured in Heil Hitler! Confessions of a Hitler Youth (1991)

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    Powerful documentary but all in all it's not that shocking because quite simply man is a wolf to man.
    I suppose the scariest thing one can take away from the holocaust is that it's perpetrators felt justified in what they had done, they saw themselves as the good guys, they saw themselves as heroes.

    Perception is a really powerful thing, the fact that we can look at the same object and see different things is scary. Some might say that what the nazis did was unprecedented but is it really? Sure maybe in its efficiency but genocide wasn't a nazi innovation. Genocide is a human innovation it had occurred long before ww2. Think of the Circassian Genocide, Armenian Genocide and the much more recent Rwandan genocide and those are just the tiny few we're know of and are allowed to call genocides. Some of the most powerful nations today have committed genocides and other horrendous acts against other humans but we can't call their atrocities genocides because they in control, they won and still hold power.

    Some of the perpetrators of these genocides are seen as heroes and have statues and monuments dedicated to them. Some people often ask "how could the Nazis think they could get it?" They thought they could get away with it because they learnt from history that others have gotten away with it. Ask yourself had the nazis won do you think we'd have had any idea of what went on? Or would it have been covered up like so many have been through out history?

    Perhaps humanity is just an aspiration.
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    • Release date
      • January 25, 1946 (Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Di Toit Milen
    • Filming locations
      • Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria
    • Production companies
      • Office of Military Government in Germany
      • U.S. Army Signal Corps
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    • Runtime
      22 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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