Nazi concentration camps – Exceptional release

For a week, from 3 to 6 May, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or review the documentary film «Nazi concentration camps»

Nazi concentration camps is the first film to be screened during the Nuremberg trial on 29 November 1945.

It is being produced under the direction of Ray Kellogg, deputy to John Ford at the FBP/OSS (Office of Strategic Services Photo Team). This is from the images shot between 1^er March and 8 May 1945 by the film crews, under the responsibility of Colonel and director George Stevens in the Nazi concentration camps and prisoner-of-war camps liberated by the Allies. It presents itself as a report whose commentary takes the notes of cameramen on the ground. The source images had to be kept as close as possible in order to respect their status as evidence before the Tribunal.

The historian and director Christian Delage, director of IHTP and curator of the exhibition Filmer les camps: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens at the Shoah Memorial in 2010, presents this film in a short video to commemorate the liberation 75 years ago of the camps by the Allied armies.  https://youtu.be/rzaCqLxarSk

The harshness of the images in the film Nazi concentration camps, makes us advise against it to children as well as an impressionable audience. However, the essential historical value of these images and the irrefutable testimony they contain make them an indispensable lesson for all those who wish that such horrors do not occur again.

Nazi concentration camps – documentary film