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One character is sent to a concentration camp and dies there, while his family is trying to leave Nazi Germany. 1940 United States: The Great Dictator: Charlie Chaplin: A condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis. The film focuses on two men: a ruthless fascist dictator named Adenoid Hynkel (a parody ...
Moloch (Russian: Молох) is a 1999 Russian biographical film, directed by Alexander Sokurov. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Yuri Arabov and Marina Koreneva. It portrays Adolf Hitler living life in an unassuming manner during an abrupt journey to the Bavarian Alps. The film stars actors Leonid Mozgovoy, Yelena ...
The Nazis had no plan for concentration camps prior to their seizure of power. [11] The concentration camp system arose in the following months due to the desire to suppress tens of thousands of Nazi opponents in Germany. The Reichstag fire in February 1933 was the pretext for mass arrests.
Auschwitz concentration camp: Joseph Schmidt: 1904–1942: Ukrainian: Singer, actor Jewish: Heart attack in a Swiss refugee camp in Gyrenbad: Fritz Spira: 1881–1943: Austrian: Film and stage actor Jewish: Died at Ruma concentration camp in Vojvodina Mathilde Sussin: 1876–1943: Austrian: Actress Jewish: Theresienstadt concentration camp ...
The Nazis distinguished between extermination and concentration camps. The terms extermination camp (Vernichtungslager) and death camp (Todeslager) were interchangeable in the Nazi system, each referring to camps whose primary function was genocide. Six camps meet this definition, though extermination of people happened at every sort of ...
The Fall of Berlin (Russian: Падение Берлина, romanized: Padeniye Berlina) is a 1950 Soviet war and propaganda film, in two parts separated in the manner of a serial. [1] It was produced by Mosfilm Studio and directed by Mikheil Chiaureli , with a script written by Pyotr Pavlenko and a musical score composed by Dmitri Shostakovich .
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".
At Buchenwald concentration camp, with encouragement of Heinrich Himmler and the support of camp doctor Gerhard Schiedlausky , Vaernet implanted capsules in at least ten homosexual prisoners. [47] Vaernet claimed that "successes" with the implants occurred, [ 49 ] presumably due to positive reports from prisoners hoping to receive a release ...