Posted on 01/27/2015 5:49:00 AM PST by Wiz-Nerd
A holocaust documentary about unreleased Alfred Hitchcock footage of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps aired in 15 countries Monday, as part of the international Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations.
HBO’s “Night Will Fall” includes harrowing footage captured by the legendary filmmaker, who recorded the grim scene that met Allied troops at Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and Auschwitz in the spring of 1945.
Initially, Hitchcock together with media baron Sidney Bernstein were commissioned by the British government to make “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey,” a documentary that was intended to show Germans the horrors of Nazi brutality.
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When a simple trailer makes your hair stand on end, you know you’re watching something that will fundamentally change who you are as a person. This trailer did that to me.
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I watched it. God save us if that sort of dictatorship ever rears its ugly head here in the USA!.
“When a simple trailer makes your hair stand on end, you know you’re watching something that will fundamentally change who you are as a person”............
It will be interesting to hear what the naysayers responses will be when this film is aired.
And Princess Barry can’t spare a few hours to attend the memorial at Auschwitz today, but he has plenty of time to bow down before the new Saudi king.
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That kind of dictatorship is essentially the left, left to its own devices to legislate everything to it’s own liking. One day the left will turn on the gay community simply because like smoking it is an unhealthy lifestyle requiring too much of socialism’s resources to be permitted.
Well, there are a lot of people who are convinced that Americans never set foot on the moon. That should give you a clue about what the response will be.
“When a simple trailer makes your hair stand on end...”
I didn’t have the courage to go past the thread’s excerpt as too many images filled my mind while reading it. Just the thought that the very skilled Hitchcock had produced it...
Bump for later
I don’t have HBO. I hope they release it in some way others can see it.
Makes me think of the 17 year old Jewish Boy who was a patient at the Psychiatric hospital where I used to work. His parents had taken him to Auschwitz during a vacation in that area. Bad move. He had a nervous breakdown seeing everything there.
Remember ,to many ,this never happened and is being expunged from books ,as being offensive to Muslims to even mention the Holocaust.
Quote: “And Princess Barry can’t spare a few hours to attend the memorial at Auschwitz today, but he has plenty of time to bow down before the new Saudi king.”
That thought crossed my mind as I was watching the ceremony.
We are in deep trouble as a Nation.
More than likely it will be available to watch on Amazon at a small fee.
I don’t have cable or a TV so everything I watch is on the net. Surprising amount of material can be found.
Really looking forward to this documentary - had never heard of this project to begin with.
Hope it comes to Netflix or I can at least order the DVD.
What is really moving ( for history geeks like me ) is the amount of never before seen footage.
I wonder if any of the film was color?
Was Hitchcock Jewish?
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