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Nazi Concentration Camps ()

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Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders.
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Self - US Army General (as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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Self - US Army commander of ground forces invading Nazi Germany (as Gen. Omar Bradley)
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Self - US Army General (as Gen. George S. Patton)
Hayden Sears ...
Self - US Army Colonel (as Col. Hayden Sears)
Herman Bolker ...
Self - US Army Major (as Maj. Herman Bolker)
Adolf Wahlmann ...
Self - chief physician, Hadamar Euthanasia Centre
Karl Willig ...
Self - chief male nurse, Hadamar Euthanasia Centre
Jack Taylor ...
Self - US Navy Lieutenant, Mauthausen concentration camp inmate (as Lt. Jack Taylor)
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Self - commandant, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

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George Stevens ... (as Col. George C. Stevens)

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John Ford ... producer

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Dwight D. Eisenhower ... ordered by

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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

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Also Known As
  • Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (United States, English title)
  • Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (World-wide, English title)
  • Les camps de concentration (France)
  • Nazi-Konzentrationslager (Germany)
  • I campi di concentramento nazisti (Italy)
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Trivia Filming the horrifying scenes of Dachau so traumatized Stevens that upon his return to Hollywood after the war he fell into a depressed state, not working and keeping himself apart from the industry. He did eventually return to directing, but completely left behind his prior style as a great comedic director and helmed only serious movies for the rest of his career. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Night and Fog (1956). See more »
Quotes Interviewer: How many ways did they execute these men?
Self - US Navy Lieutenant, Mauthausen concentration camp inmate: [Talking to camera and wearing a P.O.W. uniform] Five or six ways: by gas, by shooting, by beating, that is, beating with clubs... uh... by exposure, that is, standing out in the snow naked for forty-eight hours and having cold water thrown on them in the middle of winter, starvation, dogs, and pushing over a hundred-foot cliff. This is all true, has been seen, and is now being recorded.
Interviewer: Where did you get that uniform you have on?
Self - US Navy Lieutenant, Mauthausen concentration camp inmate: This uniform, uh, I came here in uniform, but it was taken away from me, and this was substituted with my number and "U.S.A.". I have been condemned to death as another American also in this camp, but, fortunately, the 11th Armoured has come through and saved us in time.
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