Sixty-five years ago, the world covered films made by the Alli’s in Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Of these images that have come down to us, we know little or nothing about the authors and even less about the conditions under which they were created. The M morial chose to follow the journey of three of the producers of these images, directors from Hollywood: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, and George Stevens. In 1945, the images of Dachau taken by Stevens' team are shown in a documentary first in the United States before being projected as evidence of Nazi crimes before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. This experience, in principle, was created by John Ford, who himself directed a unit called the Field Photographic Branch, responsible for creating, among other things, this film, The Nazi Concentration Camps, and for setting up the filming of the production.

Excerpt from:
The Typewriter, the Rifle
& the Movie Camera
(The Machine, write, the rifle
and the context), Adam Simon,
Great Britain, 1996.
BFI National Archive