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UNITED STATES · 1945

Death Mills

Billy Wilder
Classical Hollywood Nazi extermination camps Holocaust documentation Allied liberation war crimes evidence survivor testimonies
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Synopsis

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the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.

Year1945
CountryUnited States
DirectorBilly Wilder
MovementClassical Hollywood
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