Nazi Concentration Camps (film)

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Nazi Concentration Camps, also known as Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps, is a 1945 American film that documents the liberation of Nazi concentration camps by Allied forces during World War II. It was produced by the United States from footage captured by military photographers serving in the Allied armies as they advanced into Nazi Germany. The film was presented as evidence of Nazi war crimes in the Nuremberg trials in 1945, and the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961. In 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower requested that film director George Stevens organize a team of photographers and cameramen to capture the Normandy landings and the North African campaign. The group of forty-five people assembled was dubbed the Special Coverage Unit (SPECOU), or "Stevens Irregulars" informally. The use of the footage as evidence in a war crime trial was not initially contemplated; however, on 25 April 1945, the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) issued a memo directing cameramen...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Produced for the U.S. Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Directed by Navy Cmdrs. James B. Donovan and E. Ray Kellogg. George C. Stevens was responsible for directing the photography and fil…, Public domain