Filming The End of the Holocaust
Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
Author(s)
Michalcyzk, John J.
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
101121Language
EnglishAbstract
Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in these films, some of them made by Hollywood luminaries such as John Ford and Billy Wilder, would go on to have a major impact at the Nuremberg Trials; they helped to indict Nazi officials as the judges witnessed scenes of torture, human experimentation and extermination of Jews and non-Jews in the gas chambers and crematoria. These films, some produced by the Soviets, were integral to the war crime trials that followed the Holocaust and the Second World War, and this book provides a thorough, close analysis of the footage in these films and their historical significance.
Keywords
History; History; Germany; Nazism; Nuremberg trials; Soviet UnionDOI
10.5040/9781474210652ISBN
9781472514288, 9781474282789, 9781472510372, 9781472510860OCN
1051779626Publisher
Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher website
https://www.bloomsbury.com/academic/Publication date and place
London, England, 2016-04-21Series
War, Culture and Society,Classification
History and Archaeology
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999