In 1945, British forces approach Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Producer Sidney Bernstein working for the Ministry of Information, leads a film crew to document the German atrocities. The project is called German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. He would recruit his friend Alfred Hitchcock to help create the film, but it gets suspended in the murky cold-war politics after the fighting. The footage was used in Death Mills (1945) and Memory of the Camps (1984). Eventually, the Imperial War Museum decided to expand on the 1984 version to complete the original plan for the movie.
This is an important project. It's important to keep revisiting it over the years. More than this film alone, it's more important to maintain and preserve the endless hours of unused footage. This is the video evidence of the actual truth. From the first rumors of the camps, the deniers were out ready to dispute them. Without the original film stock, they would have a lot more ammunition. As long as the physical evidence exists, the deniers are relegated to the fringe.
This is an important project. It's important to keep revisiting it over the years. More than this film alone, it's more important to maintain and preserve the endless hours of unused footage. This is the video evidence of the actual truth. From the first rumors of the camps, the deniers were out ready to dispute them. Without the original film stock, they would have a lot more ammunition. As long as the physical evidence exists, the deniers are relegated to the fringe.