Nazi concentration camps – Exceptional dissemination

For one week, from 3 to 6 May, the Shoah Memorial invites you to watch or rewatch the documentary film "Nazi concentration camps"

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

It is carried out under the direction of Ray Kellogg, deputy to John Ford at the FBP/OSS management (photographic team of the Office of Strategic Services). It is from the images shot between the 1^er March and on May 8, 1945 by film crews under the responsibility of Colonel and director George Stevens in Nazi concentration camps and prison camps liberated by the Allies. It presents itself as a report whose commentary includes the notes of the cameramen on the ground. It was necessary to stay as close as possible to the source images to respect their status as evidence before the Tribunal.

Historian and director Christian Delage, director of the IHTP and curator of the exhibition Filming the 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 Les camps de concentration nazis, prompts us to advise against it for children as well as an impressionable audience. However, the essential historical value of these images and the irrefutable testimony they contain make it an indispensable lesson for all those who wish that such horrors would not happen again.

Nazi concentration camps – documentary film