Why Hitchcock’s horrifying film on the Holocaust was never shown
Two women drag an emaciated female corpse along the ground, its head bouncing on the dirt. When they reach a large pit, they stop, give the naked body a quick tug backward to pick up momentum, then hurl it into the hole. The corpse, which looks like a skeleton covered in a thin film of skin, flops onto a mound of decomposing bodies.
The scene, shot at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of World War II, might never have been seen by the public had a decommissioned film, boasting Alfred Hitchcock as a supervising director and British film pioneer Sidney Bernstein as producer, not been resurrected. Authorized in the spring of 1945 by the Allied forces, German Concentration Camps Factual Survey captured the monstrous realities found during the liberation of Nazi death camps, including Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and Auschwitz.
Yet by August of that year, the film was shelved by British authorities. Everything—reels of footage, the script, the cameramen’s notes—was boxed up and buried in the archives of the Imperial War Museums (IWM) in London. A new HBO documentary, Night Will Fall (January 26), directed by André Singer and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter and Jasper Britton, tells the story of how, 70 years later, this lost film came back to life.
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With grace and masterful storytelling, Night Will Fall reveals the carnage the Allied troops found in the concentration camps and reminds us of just how powerful bearing witness can be. The film is a poignant, potent addition to the canon of Holocaust history. As Bernstein said in an interview in 1984, “My instructions were to film everything which would prove one day that this had actually happened. It’d be a lesson to all mankind as well. As to the Germans, for whom the film that we were putting together was designed…it would be the evidence we could show them…. I wanted to prove that they had seen it, so there was evidence, because I guessed rightly, and most people would deny that it happened.”
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He was the top Sgt. of his outfit. Many of his men had approached him asking if they could just shoot any of the German soldiers they'd captured. He explained to them that they don't defeat Nazis by becoming Nazis, that the American GIs were among the good guys in that war and that it would terrify the Jewish inmates if they did start shooting Germans. What he did NOT tell them was that it was all he could do to not put HIS Thompson on single fire and shoot every German he saw.
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If I recall, I think that soldier is a pretty Star Wars Mark Hammill.
BTW, my uncle lived until the mid 90s. I often heard men who'd served with him (many of whom lived in the same neighborhood) address him as "Top" even 40+ years after the war. For many reasons, he was a great man!
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...sometimes I fear the same thing.
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...and my uncle REALLY wanted to shoot the Germans. His unit was made up of mostly neighborhood guys who'd newer seen Jewish people in their lives. They did, however, recognize inhuman horror when they saw it!
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...poor Nazi bastards! 
Where was your father? My great uncle Felix, who was my step-mother's uncle, was a survivor of (I think) Treblinka. I only met him once when I was 8. I remember the numbers tattooed on his forearm and how he would freeze up when he heard the police sirens. He lived in LA and their sirens sounded a lot like the ones that the Gestapo used. Almost 52 years later, the memory still chills me.
Thank you for sharing.
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Will watch this later today. Thank you again for posting this.
& recommend.
How could they?
That's Ohrdruf. To the far right of the gallows is a reporter for The Stars and Stripes. To the left of Eisehower I can see someone who loved me very much. You don't see his gun - in that picture - but his job was to protect Dwight.
Even when confronted with what they had done - the people denied it. You will never see the long shot pictures of the citizens bring marched through the camp. The ones with American soldiers pointing guns at them.
15/20 years later one of the young men in that picture would come to view his own country as capable of that - in particular to black Americans. It could happen here - it could happen anywhere. Cambodia, the Kurds, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan . . . Who's next? And those are just since the very very REAL holocaust. That's not including the decimation of the Native population in the Western Hemisphere.
