Belsen:Alfred Hitchcock's Nazi death camp documentary film to finally be seen after 70 years

[Are_grits_groceries]

Alfred Hitchcock's Nazi death camp film to finally be seen after 70 years

with the Allied forces fought their way across occupied Europe in the Second World War, filming ­liberation from the Nazis. They captured the joy of freed people welcoming British Tommies, but also the wanton death and destruction of total warfare.

Often at risk from enemy fire and armed with nothing more lethal than a cine camera, they sent the reality of war back home on film.

But nothing on the battlefield could prepare them for the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. Combat-seasoned sergeants gazed in mute disbelief at scenes of mass murder, torture and depravity.

Still, they kept the cameras rolling, to record the greatest act of man’s inhumanity to man (and woman, and child), for a documentary that would warn future generations what happens when a nation abandons belief in the sanctity of life.

Directed by the future Granada TV chief Sidney Bernstein, with Alfred Hitchcock on board as an adviser and Labour politician – and psychological warfare expert – Richard Crossman writing the script, it was to be entitled German Concentration Camps Factual Survey.

It closes with these words. “Unless the world learns the lessons these picture teach, night will fall, and by the grace of God we who live will learn.”
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/alfred-hitchcocks-nazi-death-camp-4290653

Their experiences had to have haunted them forever.

[Scarsdale]

1. Photos

I grew up in WW11 England, with the bombing raids. I still remember seeing the photos in the newspapers, and reading the stories. Horrific, unimaginable death and destruction. War is NEVER the answer to any problem, anyone who has lived through one knows that.

[Skittles]

2. my mum survived WWII bombing as a child in England

she said no one who had ever experienced bombs would ever say something like, "We should just bomb them."

[Scarsdale]

6. Very true

We sat in our air raid shelter, listening to the planes drone overhead, the sirens screaming, and bombs whistling down. Terrifying. Carried gas masks to school. I remember stopping at the corner of our road after school wondering what I would do if I turned the corner, and our house was gone, bombed like so many others. Had an aunt and uncle with three sons, who were "bombed out" of their home three times, lost everything. The Red Cross helped them collect furniture, clothing and found them a place to live each time. My aunt died at 46 from cancer. I still think it was from the stress.

[spanone]

3. k&r...

[justiceischeap]

4. You can watch the documentary on YouTube if you wish

[hobbit709]

5. Yet the holocaust deniers still refuse to believe it.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. They always will!

Worst still, IMO, are the ones who minimize the Holocaust. They fall into three groups: things weren't as bleak as they (Jews/now called Zionists); the Jews/Zionists were actively involved in the Holocaust; look what they do now (usually directed at Israel, but includes "banksters" and media). There are variations, but usually they fall into one of those three groups.