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Seven inmates, one Jewish, escape from a concentration camp 1944 Poland Majdanek: Cemetery of Europe: Aleksander Ford: One of the first films to include footage of concentration camps 1945 Soviet Union The Unvanquished: Mark Donskoy: First feature film to show mass murder of Jews and hunting for them on the occupied territories. 1946 Venice ...
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".
The Death of Adolf Hitler (1973) – British biographical television film detailing the last 10 days of Hitler's life as World War II comes to an end and Allied troops close in on the Führerbunker [118] Dillinger (1973) – biographical gangster film about the life and criminal exploits of notorious bank robber John Dillinger [119]
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 ...
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 ...
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
In France, between 3,000 and 6,000 Roma were deported to German concentration camps as Dachau, Ravensbrück, Buchenwald, and other camps. [ 24 ] [ page needed ] Further east, in the Balkan states and the Soviet Union, the Einsatzgruppen , mobile killing squads, travelled from village to village massacring the inhabitants where they lived and ...
Murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp: Arthur Bergen: 1875–1943: Austrian: Actor, director Jewish: 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 ...