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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".
Death Is My Trade (German: Aus einem deutschen Leben) (1977) – West German biographical drama film based on the real Rudolf Höß, commandant of the concentration camp Auschwitz [319] The Death of Richie (1977) – drama television film about the 1972 death of George Richard "Richie" Diener Jr. at the hands of his father, who was ultimately ...
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.
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 ...
Downfall (German: Der Untergang) is a 2004 historical war drama film written and produced by Bernd Eichinger and directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.It is set during the Battle of Berlin in World War II, when Nazi Germany is on the verge of total defeat, and depicts the final days of Adolf Hitler (portrayed by Bruno Ganz).
Prisoner's Barracks of Dachau Concentration Camp. Dachau was established in March 1933 as the first Nazi Concentration Camp. Dachau was chiefly a political camp, rather than an extermination camp, but of around 160,000 prisoners sent to its main camp, over 32,000 were either executed or died of disease, malnutrition or brutalization.
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 ...