Auschwitz
Soviet documentary shot right after liberation of Auschwitz. It was used as evidence by the Soviet prosecution at the Nuremberg trials. In 2014, footage shot by cameraman Aleksandr Vorontsov, as well as his interview given in 1986 for German television, were included in Andre Singer’s documentary “Night Will Fall”.
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This document were used for the war crime tribunal in Nürnberg 1945-46 to show the atrocities in the Auschwitz complex All footage were taken some month after liberation. After liberation the camp was cleaned up for those inmates who still lived there. This film document has no audio track due the fact that the Nürnberg trials were international ... no original script to this film are known to exist
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- Elizaveta Svilova
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