Foreword

If the exhibition is limited to the two camps of Dachau and Falkenau (satellite of Flossenb rg), it is nevertheless of nature: to make the public understand the conditions in which the German operations have been operating. The teams set up by John Ford and George Stevens were composed of professional, recognized, and experienced collaborators, or from them especially; this opportunity.

The exhibition evokes the history of these three great creators, whose journey was transformed by the violence of the Second World War and the suffering of the victims of the Nazi atrocities. Through 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 forms that the op rators filled out and the reports written by one of the crivains created by Stevens. Excerpts from these texts, read by Mathieu Amalric, have been placed in the comments on the images. This documentary series allows us to give a place to today’s viewers, the shelter of those who work there, whose actions are thus revitalized.

This, the collaboration of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences and the Lilly Library (Bloomington University, 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 in spoken words, which make it possible to trace, almost from day to day, an experience that has been made; the first person, In my time, which was transmitted during the ripening to the same generations.

Christian Delage, curator of the exhibition.