This newly produced
film shot just after the discovery of Belsen by Alfred Hitchcock no less, fills
an important gap in the historical record.
We have all seen the initial shots taken but the actual activities of
the rescue and cleanup of this humanitarian disaster remained unreported. That turns out to be untrue.
This documentary does
an excellent job, but it is also understandable that it was never finished in
1945. That it is finished now closes the
historical record with a pretty complete description of the super human clean
up that took place then.
The film captures the
scale of dying that was simply ongoing when the allies arrived. I do not meant that the people involved still
hung around so much as that thousands were dead and unremoved in the huge
barracks, Typhus ran rampant all through the camp because of lice, and chronic
starvation was weakening the rest. This
was very much a dying place rather than a killing place.
The victims were
shoved into this hell until they died from starvation and disease, upon which
they were immediately replaced by fresh victims.
THIS IS FOR ALL THOSE
HOLOCAUST DENIERS! DON’T YOU DARE!
In 1945 renown movie director, Alfred
Hitchcock was asked to produce a film that would document the horrors of the
Holocaust. That movie proved so potent, so damning that the allies suppressed
the film’s release.
According to the Independent, Hitchcock’s
documentary on the Holocaust was mothballed to the Imperial War Museum, much
like the fictional Ark of the Covenant was at the conclusion of Steven
Spielberg’s, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Upon discovering Hitchcock’s video record of
the worst genocide in human history in a number of rusty video cans in the
1980′s, the Imperial War Museum painstakingly restored the film which has now
finally been released for all to see.
_**Warning: This film includes footage and descriptions of the
Holocaust that may prove very distressing for some.**_
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