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In the autumn of 1941, an SS training camp appeared in the small Polish town of Travniki, organized on the personal initiative of Heinrich Himmler. The cadets of this camp were supposed to be, according to the Reichsfuhrer's idea, Soviet prisoners of war. In the first months after the German attack on the Soviet Union, there were millions of them, exhausted, psychologically crushed, dying of hunger.
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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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