Foreword

If the exhibition is limited to the two camps of Dachau and Falkenau (satellite of Flossenb rg), it is nevertheless in nature to make understand to the public the conditions under which the Spanish operators worked. The teams set up by John Ford and George Stevens were composed of professional, recognized and experienced operators, or especially on this occasion.

The exhibition evokes the history of these three great artists whose journey was disrupted by the violence of the Second World War and the presentation of the victims of the Nazi atrocities. In addition to images, texts by John Ford and Joseph Kessel are read by Jean-Fran ois St venin.

For the first time, the images of the Dachau camp are presented in the chronological order in which they were taken. They are accompanied by the sheets that the operators were filling out and by the reports written by one of the critics handled by Stevens. Extracts from these texts, read by Mathieu Amalric, have been placed in the comments on the images. This documentary set allows to give a place to the spectators of today, the shelter of the operators, whose gestures of m diation are thus revitalized.

Thanks to the collaboration of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences and the Lilly Library (University of Bloomington, Indiana), and the participation of Christa Fuller, George Stevens Jr. and Jerry Rudes, the M morial is able to show for the first time in France a montage of archival documents, films, and photographs, often spoken, which allow one to trace, almost on a day-to-day basis, an experience presented by the first person, in my time that is transmitted in h ritage to the g n rations of apr s.

Christian Delage, Curator of the exhibition.