Nazi concentration camps – Exceptional dissemination

For one week, from the 3rd to the 6th of May, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or watch again the documentary film "Nazi concentration camps"

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

It is produced under the direction of Ray Kellogg, assistant to John Ford at the head of FBP/OSS (photographic team of the Office of Strategic Services). It’s from the footage shot between the 1^er March and 8 May 1945 by film crews, under the responsibility of Colonel and director George Stevens in Nazi concentration camps and prisoner camps liberated by the Allies. It is presented as a report whose commentary takes up the notes of the cameramen on the ground. We had to stay as close as possible to the source images to respect their status as evidence before the Tribunal.

The 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 of the camps 75 years ago by the Allied armies.  https://youtu.be/rzaCqLxarSk

The harshness of the images in the film Les camps de concentration nazis, incites us to advise children and an impressionable audience against it. 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 happen again.

Nazi concentration camps – documentary film