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German Concentration Camps Factual Survey [+commentary] (2017)

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Date: 15 Aug 2017 22:09:40

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey [+commentary] (2017)
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Genre: Documentary | UK

Restored official British documentary film on the Nazi concentration camps, based on footage shot by the Allied forces in 1945.

On 29 September 1945, the incomplete rough-cut of a disturbing yet compelling documentary revealing the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps was viewed at the Ministry of Information in London. For five months, Sidney Bernstein had led a small team - which included Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock - to complete the film from hours of footage.

Unfortunately, this ambitious Allied project to create a feature-length visual report that would damn the Nazi regime and shame the German people into acceptance of Allied occupation had missed its moment, and was left unfinished and shelved. Even in its incomplete form, the film was immensely powerful, generating an awed hush among audiences. But now, complete to six reels, this faithfully restored and definitive version produced by the Imperial War Museums and with a newly recorded narration by actor Jasper Britton, has been rightfully compared with Alan Resnais' Night and Fog (1955).

IMDB 8.3/10 from 264 users

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Richard Crossman, Colin Wills
Actors: N/A
Rated: +18
Runtime: 71 min

In 1945, the British producer Sidney Bernstein contacted his good friend Alfred Hitchcock for help on a horrific project. Mr. Bernstein, the chief of the film section of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, had been present at the Nazi extermination camp Bergen-Belsen in April that year, soon after its liberation. The film he was preparing would serve as irrefutable evidence of Nazi atrocities and be shown to Germans and to the world. Mr. Bernstein wanted it to “be in the form of a prosecuting counsel stating his case.” Hitchcock’s contribution seems to have been advisory; he suggested, for instance, that the film use long takes to affirm the material’s authenticity.

More than half a century after Mr. Bernstein began work on this documentary, it has been at last completed and restored, and is now receiving a commercial release under the exacting, straightforward title “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey.” The title’s blandness is appropriate given the bluntness of the prosecutorial narration (read by an actor, Jasper Britton) and the unsparingly graphic evidentiary visuals. Most of the film consists of material shot inside and near several extermination camps, including Dachau and Auschwitz; much of the imagery is heart-crushing and extremely tough to watch, consisting of newly freed skeletal men, women and children and thousands of corpses.

At once a document and a denunciation, the film builds its case rapidly and unblinkingly. It looks back at 1933 and the rise of National Socialism — using images of Hitler among the masses from the propaganda film “Triumph of the Will” — then skips forward to a number of recently liberated extermination camps. Some of this imagery will likely be familiar and not just to those who have watched other Holocaust documentaries. One of the eerie truths of this film is that, however difficult it is to watch, it can seem shocking, but not surprising, simply because such imagery has been so thoroughly incorporated into pop culture, either through direct citation or by inference.

This troubling sense of familiarity soon dissipates, though, because this is not like most films. In contrast to many movies about atrocities, including some documentaries, there is nothing reassuring about “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey.” There are no hollow claims about the “triumph” of the human spirit, no third-act heroics or narrative balms. The few smiles here are desperate. Mostly, there are starving survivors milling about the camps and staring into the camera with hollow eyes. Some lie on the floor, too frail to move; others drift about on stick legs. In most camps, the survivors appear outnumbered by the dead, with corpses scattered like refuse or in piles and in pits.

“German Concentration Camps Factual Survey” was finally finished and restored in 2014 by the Imperial War Museums, in Britain, where the original elements had been kept. Its history is long and tangled. It began as an Allied endeavor and, according to the historian Toby Haggith, the director of the restoration, was meant to include concluding statements from President Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. (Dr. Haggith has written a useful, concise history of the documentary that is available on the British Film Institute’s website.) The Americans, however, opted to produce their own film, “Death Mills” (1946), directed by Billy Wilder. Mr. Bernstein continued working on the original project; Hitchcock, Mr. Haggith writes, may have contributed to the script.

An unfinished version of “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey” was screened in September 1945, but then the film was abandoned, an apparent casualty of changing political priorities and a shift from renunciation to reconstruction. Simply put, the Allies needed Germans to rebuild their country. (According to one scholarly account, Mr. Bernstein was informed that “policy at the moment in Germany is entirely in the direction of encouraging, stimulating and interesting the Germans out of their apathy.”) An incomplete version of the film, titled “Memory of the Camps,” was released in 1984; some of the material was used in another documentary, “A Painful Reminder” (1985).

This restoration of “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey” is an extraordinary act of cinematic reclamation and historiography. The documentary proper runs about 75 minutes and is book-ended by two new sequences, including a brief introduction that offers critical viewing context. Just as crucial, though, is a longer postscript that includes interviews with some of the principals involved in the Imperial War Museums’ restoration. They contribute more on the film’s complex history, but they also talk about how hard this material is to watch, offering a much-needed humanizing coda. One man suggests that you may at times need to close your eyes; mostly, though, you need to watch.

- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times (January 5, 2017)

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