Synopsis
Death Mills Produced: 1946 Description Documentary: Highlights German concentration camps. Beginning and ending with the townspeople of Gardelegen, Germany, carrying crosses to a local barn containing 1,100 victims of the holocaust, shows victims of Auschwitz, Majdanck, Treblinka, Belsen, Buchenwald and other camps. Allied physicians examine sick and injured victims at Auschwitz; General Eisenhower and other officers visit Ohrdruf; Archbishop of Canterbury and other church dignitaries visit camps. Includes shots of torture implements, gas chambers, blast furnace, storage room.
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Details
- Running time
- 21 minutes
- Collection
- News & Public Affairs
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- National Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Billy Wilder short documentary · aedwy57 · 2026-08-27
The 22 min. documentary was directed by Billy Wilder and is a much-abbreviated version of "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey", a 1945 British government documentary that was not completed until nearly seven decades later.
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