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Ion Degen. The legendary Soviet tanker, an outstanding doctor, the author of one of the most famous poems about the war, written by him at the age of 19 at the front. Yes, he had to destroy enemies, but he was a soldier. One of the best warriors in that terrible war who defended their homeland. Listening to this man, you begin to understand that our generation and his generation speak different languages.
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When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".
