死亡工厂
/
Die Todesmühlen
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死亡工廠
director:
Billy Wilder
/
Hans Burger
/
Billy Wilder
playwright:
Oskar Seidlin
/
Hans Burger
actor:
Anton Reimer
genre:
Documentary
/
Short
region:
United States
language:
English
length: 22m
release date: 1945
IMDb: tt0038176
Overview
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film includes accounts of the economic aspects of the camps' operation, the interrogation of captured camp personnel, and the enforced visits of the inhabitants of neighboring towns, who, along with the rest of their compatriots, are blamed for complicity in the Nazi crimes - one of the few such condemnations in the Allied war records.