http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2rXhWeMzTo
This was a British documentary filmed, in part, by Alfred Hitchcock. All the camps were apparently not controlled by the Soviets. I have only watched this once, about 15 years ago. I do not need to see it again.
I show this film, Memories of the Camps, to my 8th graders as part of the World War II unit. It is extremely graphic. Even my most “worldly” or cynical ones are shaken by what they see. The English teacher has them read Diary of Anne Frank at about the same time. The film opens with the British liberation of Bergen-Belsen which is where she died only a month before. After seeing the movie, swazticas are no longer cool.
Thank you for posting this. I watched it. I was hard, very hard to watch. This was not a systematic “extermination” camp but a death camp none the less and anyone trying to deny it, Dachau and other concentration camps within Germany and Austria had a gas chambers and crematoriums for the purpose of mass exterminations. And it doesn’t even get into the horrific human “experiments” carried out at some of these camps including Dachau, not only on Jews, but on Catholics and Lutherans, other political objectors and on ethic Poles and Gypsies, homosexuals and other “undesirables” such as people with Downs Syndrome, the mentally ill and physically infirmed.
Not to minimize the horrors of the systematic killing camps like Auschwitz, but in some ways those people may have been the lucky ones; killed quickly rather than killed slowing by unimaginably hard forced labor, slow starvation and disease, women forced into prostitution and then the medical experimentations even on the children.
I can’t understand anyone who wants to minimize or deny the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps no matter where they were located.