1945
6.5 (11 votes)
0h 22m
Genres
War
Documentary
Production Companies
U.S. Army Signal Corps
Death Mills
Overview
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated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 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 captured camp personnel, and the enforced visits of the inhabitants of neighboring towns, who, along with the rest of their compatriots, are blamed for complicity in the Nazi crimes - one of the few such condemnations in the Allied war records.
Key Crew
Writer: Oskar Seidlin, Hans Burger
Director: Hans Burger, Billy Wilder
