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A victim of a war of memories, the camp has been the subject of intense confrontation for the past seventy years. After its liberation by the Soviet army in 1945, the site was in turn plundered, developed and exploited by political and religious authorities. During the Cold War, the facts themselves were distorted to suit the ideological interests of each party, often obscuring the singularity of the Jewish genocide. As the last survivors of the Holocaust disappear, new dangers arise. What will be the fate of this place steeped in history?
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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".
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