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Synopsis: During the April of 1945, in Germany, the World War II was drawing to a close, with the Allied Forces moving towards Berlin. Among their ranks were also soldiers that were newly trained as combat cameramen with the sole duty to document the gruesome scenes behind the recently liberated Nazi concentration camps on behalf of the British Government. The 1945 documentary was named "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey" and it was produced by Sidney Bernstein with the participation of Alfred Hitchcock. For nearly seven decades, the film was shelved in the British archives, abandoned without a public screening for either political reasons or shifted Government priorities, to be ultimately completed by a team of historians and film scholars of the British Imperial War Museum, who meticulously restored the original footage. Intertwined with interviews of both survivors and liberators, as well as short newsreel films and raw footage from the original film, the 2014 documentary chronicles t
Director(s): Andre Singer
Production: Spring Films Ltd.
  7 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
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Year:
2014
75 min
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the Nazis, which was

the most important part.

We ran out to them.

They gave us

chocolate, cookies, and hugs,

and this was my first

taste of freedom.

We didn't have

the strength even, you know,

to... to... to dance or what,

so we just feebly,

very feebly started singing,

and we were so happy,

we were so happy that

these angels came

from the heavens to liberate us.

Unlike Bergen-Belsen,

which was a prison camp,

Auschwitz was a slave labor camp

and a mass extermination center.

Within its gas chambers,

more than a million men,

women, and children died.

Their fate was usually

determined within minutes

of their arrival.

The cattle car doors slid open,

thousands of people spilled out

from the cattle car.

My father and two

older sisters disappeared

in the crowd.

Never ever did I see them again.

As we were holding

onto mother, a Nazi

was running, yelling

in German, "Twins, twins!"

A woman came up,

and she took the little suitcase

from my mother and she says,

"Listen, are these two...

are these two twins?"

My mother said, "Yes."

So she says, "Why don't

you say they're twins?

"It's a good thing

to have twins here

in this place."

The next time the Nazi came,

my mother said,

"Here are my twins."

They took us to Mengele.

Mengele looked at us.

The Nazi said, "Here,

I found twins for you."

Eva and Vera were

among the few survivors

of Josef Mengele's infamously

cruel medical experiments.

1,500 of his other victims

died at his hands.

The Soviet army camera unit

did not arrive

until a few days after

the first troops.

There came a... there

came a crew, a film crew

to film... to film the...

the inmates,

especially the twins.

A soldier, a Russian soldier,

he was beckoning to me.

He says, "Come, come, come.

Film, film, film."

So they filmed us marching

between those two rows

of barbed wire,

and because Miriam and I

had the striped prison uniforms,

we ended up in the front.

These children are twins.

When identical twins were

born to non-German parents,

they were confiscated

and handed over

to an experimental station.

German doctors injected

them with diseases

and attempted cures.

Success in the cure was

not important as these

children were

written off, unknown.

They had no names, only numbers

tattooed on their arms.

Across Germany,

many more concentration camps

were coming to light.

The Allies recorded

the evidence on film,

more material

for Bernstein's documentary.

300 kilometers southeast

of Bergen-Belsen at Buchenwald,

the Americans entered a camp

described as

a prison and labor camp.

I found out the Buchenwald camp

was being liberated,

so the captain that

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