![]() Collected from the murdered, it would have been carefully sorted and weighed. In one piece of film, from Majdanek concentration camp, we see huge bags containing human hair. As well as the dead, the footage showed starved survivors and human remains in ovens. As they worked, reels of film kept arriving, sent by British, American and Soviet combat and newsreel cameramen from 11 camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen. They set to work on a documentary entitled German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. ![]() ![]() Photograph: Peter Stackpole/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Imagesīernstein assembled a remarkable team, including the future Labour cabinet minister Richard Crossman, who wrote the film’s lyrical script, and Alfred Hitchcock, who flew in from Hollywood to advise Bernstein on its structure. ![]()
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