In 1945 renown movie director, Alfred Hitchcock was asked to produce a film that would document the horrors of the Holocaust. That movie proved so potent, so damning that the allies suppressed the film’s release.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Off-track Holocaust Documentary on TV Next Year – January 14, 2014 – War History Online
Imperial War Museum has restored Alfred Hitchcock’s off-track Holocaust documentary, The Memory of the Camps, and will put it in show on TV by next year. ….
Behind The Memory of the Camps:
English film director and producer Alfred Hitchcock was asked by his patron Sidney Bernstein, Granada media group founder, to do a documentary on the cruelty done by Nazi Germans during WWII. The film was made using real flicks taken from the Nazis’ concentration camps by the Army Film Unit and Alfred Hitchcock became the picture’s “treatment adviser”.
According to a report run by The Independent, the film was made to let the German people see and realize the extent of the atrocities they did during WWII.
“Once they discovered the camps, the Americans and British were keen to release a film very quickly that would show the camps and get the German people to accept their responsibility for the atrocities that were there, Dr. Toby Haggith of the Imperial War Museum suggested during an interview with The Independent.” … http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/alfred-hitchcock-track-holocaust-documentary-tv-next-year.html
Link voor de video “Memory of the Camps”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdUq993AsQc
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