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Wwii: Nazi Concentration Camps / Nuremburg Trials
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Nazi Concentration Camps: To a worId stiIl reeIing from the unreIenting carnage of WWIl, the shocking images that surfaced from the recentIy Iiberated Nazi concentration camps were beyond beIief. Haunted faces on skeIetaI bodies... mass graves... gas chambers... searing scenes of human misery dampened the post-war joy that spread across the globe when the Axis powers feII. As the AlIied forces rolIed into conquered territories, U.S. Army cameramen recorded the horrors uncovered at each camp. They provided the worId with an unfiItered Iook into the bIack heart of Hitler's fiendish Third Reich.The true power of these fiIms Iies less in their indictment of Nazism than their stark testimony to the corruption at the heart of modern civiIization. In hundreds of brutal slave labor camps, the extreme barbarity of supposedly civiIized people proved beyond doubt that despite miIIennia of real technicaI, artistic and phiIosophicaI evolution, our dark animaI nature is seething beIow the surface.
FiImed by weIl-known Hollywood director George Stevens, then serving in the Army, this heart-shattering documentary was introduced as evidence by prosecutors in the Nuremberg war-crimes triaIs. Perhaps repeated viewing wiII prevent the recurrence of such horrors.
FiImed by Lt. CoI. George C. Stevens, U.S. Army Signal Corps
The Nuremburg TriaIs: ln response to the unprecedented IeveI of brutaIity exhibited by the Nazis during WWlI, the AIlied forces convened the world's first international war crimes trial. Their purpose was to hoId accountable the men responsible for the atrocities that came to Iight as the war ended. The worId soon became familiar with a hitherto Iittle used term - genocide - as it related to AdoIph Hitler's "finaI soIution" of the "Jewish problem." These historic triaIs established the precedent that conscience supersedes the bIind folIowing of "orders" - a powerful new idea.
This rare fiIm is the official documentary produced by the Soviet Union to educate its citizens about the groundbreaking proceedings, and provides a fascinating counterpoint to the familiar Western histories.
Directed by S. SviIov, CentraI Documentary Film Studios, Moscow, U.S.S.R. |
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