Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,3 (2001) 205-253
Keywords:
British Army Film and Photographic Unit
;
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
;
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Mass media and the Holocaust
;
Nazi concentration camps
Abstract:
Examines the harrowing images from Bergen-Belsen shown in newspapers and newsreels in Britain in the summer of 1945. Discusses who photographed these images and for what purpose. The bulk of these images were produced by the men of the British Army Film and Propaganda Unit (AFPU), who were among the first troops to enter the camp and remained there for several weeks. Describes the shock they experienced in the first days in the camp, as well as their guiding principles in choosing the images to be shot: they emphasized, in particular, the humanity of their subjects. The AFPU's photographs and film footage shocked the people who viewed them. Besides arousing resentment against the Germans, they raised the question of what the British government had known and why it did nothing. The AFPU's camp images convinced skeptics that reports on Nazi camps were neither atrocity propaganda nor "Jewish stories."
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