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The images from the camps include shots of piles of skeletal corpses, naked skeletal survivors (often supported by fellow prisoners) together with footage of prosperous-looking German citizens being forced to observe their suffering. Some are also forced to carry the corpses to be buried, although
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Most of the film includes footage of the newly liberated camps over a score of stark classical music. The narrator notes that people of all nationalities were found in the camps, including people of all religious or political creeds. There is no mention of the particular fate of
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is credited as the writer and director, while Wilder supervised the editing. Wilder is credited with directing the English-language version; however, he later said that he didn't direct anything as "there was nothing to direct".
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uses footage of this film during the scene where Edward G. Robinson explains to Mary about Franz Kindler's responsibility for the Holocaust. This film would be included as a supplement on the Kino Lorber Blu-Ray of
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and parades was millions of men, women and children who were tortured to death – the greatest mass murder in human history," then fades into German civilians at
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Lastly, the film shows the piles of stolen personal belongings of gassed victims, filmed by the Soviets when they liberated
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The German-language version of the film was shown in the US sector of West Germany in January 1946.
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at several camps, as well as the infamous slogans erected at the entrances of most camps, such as
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The film opens with a note that the following is "a reminder that behind the curtain of Nazi
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centre. Some of the footage appears to be of Soviet origin, and includes shots taken at
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Holocaust and the moving image : representations in film and television since 1933
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accelerated the pace of rearmament and as Reichsbank president banked for the SS the
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There are shots of mass graves, as well as of individual burials, as at
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most of this work was usually carried out by ex-camp guards (as at
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which was one of the first camps to be liberated in 1944 by the
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audiences to educate them about the atrocities committed by the
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