Nazi Concentration Camps (1945)
Nazi Concentration Camps (1945)
Compiled under the direct order of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the final months of World War Two, this documentary was assembled from footage shot by military photographers as Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps across Germany and Poland in 1945. It was not made for general audiences. The film was submitted as evidentiary material at the Nuremberg trials, screened in court on 29 November 1945 during proceedings against Hermann Göring and twenty other senior Nazi figures. George Stevens, who directed it, had been a Hollywood comedy director before the war (his credits included Laurel and Hardy shorts and the Fred Astaire musical Swing Time) and went on to make Shane and Giant, but he later said that what he witnessed and filmed in those camps never fully left him.
Actual genuine footage of nazi war crimes and the victims thereof. It's impossible to rate. It's impossible to watch. I do not recommend.
Rating: Not rated | Year: 1945 | Watched: 2025-12-02
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