Language:
French
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Les Cahiers du Judaïsme
Angaben zur Quelle:
15 (2003) 61-70
Keywords:
Memory of the Camps (film)
;
Holocaust victims
;
Nazi concentration camps in motion pictures
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Nazi concentration camps Liberation
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Discusses the film footage made by Allied troops (British, American, and Russian) who liberated concentration camps, put together in 1945 with the intention of showing it to the public in Germany and elsewhere. The guiding force behind this British project was Sidney Bernstein, a British government official; the narrative was written by Richard Crossman, and Alfred Hitchcock was the adviser. When the film was nearly finished, the British military government in Germany decided not to show this film to the public, but parts of it were screened at the Nuremberg Trials. It is suggested that the British did not wish to show gruesome images of the Holocaust to the Germans because it might impact their reconstruction of Germany. Also, they did not wish to arouse sympathy for the Jewish victims, who might then flood the gates of Palestine. The film was sequestered in the Imperial War Museum in London, where it remains to this day.
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