Filming The End of the Holocaust Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps / John J. Michalcyzk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michalcyzk, John J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in these films, some of them made by Hollywood luminaries such as John Ford and Billy Wilder, would go on to have a major impact at the Nuremberg Trials; they helped to indict Nazi officials as the judges witnessed scenes of torture, human experimentation and extermination of Jews and non-Jews in the gas chambers and crematoria. These films, some produced by the Soviets, were integral to the war crime trials that followed the Holocaust and the Second World War, and this book provides a thorough, close analysis of the footage in these films and their historical significance.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101121

ISBN:

9781474282789