Cameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.Cameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.Cameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.
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Adolf Hitler
- Self
- (archive footage)
Sidney Bernstein
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Richard Crossman(1945 original production team)
- Colin Wills(1945 original production team)
- Alfred Hitchcock
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- TriviaOriginally shot in 1945, the project took longer than expected to complete, and eventually five of the film's six reels were left, abandoned, in the Imperial War Museum and forgotten. The footage was discovered decades later, and shown in an incomplete version at the Berlin Film Festival in 1984, and then broadcast on American PBS in 1985 under the title Memory of the Camps (1984).
- ConnectionsEdited from Frontline: Memory of the Camps (1984)
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In 1945, British forces approach Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Producer Sidney Bernstein working for the Ministry of Information, leads a film crew to document the German atrocities. The project is called German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. He would recruit his friend Alfred Hitchcock to help create the film, but it gets suspended in the murky cold-war politics after the fighting. The footage was used in Death Mills (1945) and Memory of the Camps (1984). Eventually, the Imperial War Museum decided to expand on the 1984 version to complete the original plan for the movie.
This is an important project. It's important to keep revisiting it over the years. More than this film alone, it's more important to maintain and preserve the endless hours of unused footage. This is the video evidence of the actual truth. From the first rumors of the camps, the deniers were out ready to dispute them. Without the original film stock, they would have a lot more ammunition. As long as the physical evidence exists, the deniers are relegated to the fringe.
This is an important project. It's important to keep revisiting it over the years. More than this film alone, it's more important to maintain and preserve the endless hours of unused footage. This is the video evidence of the actual truth. From the first rumors of the camps, the deniers were out ready to dispute them. Without the original film stock, they would have a lot more ammunition. As long as the physical evidence exists, the deniers are relegated to the fringe.
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- Memorias de los campos
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,468
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,000
- Jan 8, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $4,468
- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 1.37 : 1
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