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The film focuses on two men: a ruthless fascist dictator named Adenoid Hynkel (a parody of Hitler) and a persecuted Jewish barber. The Jewish barber is sent to a concentration camp, but manages to escape (and ends up mistaken for Hynkel, while Hynkel is mistaken for the Jewish barber, and sent off to a concentration camp).
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey is the official British documentary film on the Nazi concentration camps, based on footage shot by the Allied forces in 1945. [3] The film was produced by Sidney Bernstein, then with the British Ministry of Information, [4] with Alfred Hitchcock acting as a "treatment advisor".
Although the word "concentration camp" has acquired the connotation of murder because of the Nazi concentration camps, the British camps in South Africa did not involve systematic murder. The German Empire also established concentration camps during the Herero and Namaqua genocide (1904–1907); the death rate of these camps was 45 per cent ...
Shoah is a 1985 French documentary film about the Holocaust (known as "Shoah" in Hebrew since the 1940s [4]), directed by Claude Lanzmann.Over nine hours long and eleven years in the making, the film presents Lanzmann's interviews with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators during visits to German Holocaust sites across Poland, including extermination camps.
Before the war, it housed about 7,000 people; during the camp's existence, the average population was about 45,000. About 33,000 died at Theresienstadt and almost 90,000 were deported to ghettos, extermination camps, and other killing centres, where they faced almost certain death. [2] In 1942, a Nazi propaganda film was filmed at Theresienstadt.
The film tells the stories of five Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust (also known as the Shoah), focusing on the last year of World War II, when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary and began mass deportations of Jews in the country to concentration and extermination camps, primarily Auschwitz. It depicts the horrors of life in the camps, but also ...
Auschwitz concentration camp: Egon Friedell: 1878–1938: Austrian: Actor, cabaret performer Jewish: Suicide to avoid arrest by Sturmabteilung: Eugen Burg: 1871–1944: German: Film actor Jewish: Died at an unknown concentration camp: Ernst Arndt: 1861-1942/3: German: Actor Jewish: Murdered in the gas chamber at Treblinka concentration camp ...
Chapters 5 – 6. In KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374118259. Webb, Chris (2016). The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance. New York: Ibidem Press/Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-3838208664.