Sixty-five years ago, the world covered films made by the Alli’s in the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Of these images that have come to us, we know little or nothing about the authors and even less about the conditions for their creation. The M Memorial 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 included in a documentary first shown in the United States before being drafted, as evidence of Nazi crimes, before the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg. This experience, in said, has been presented by e by John Ford, who was himself directing a special unit, the Field Photographic Branch, responsible for creating among other things this film, The Nazi Concentration Camps, and for setting up the filming of the proc s.

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