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Death Mills

Death Mills

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 10, 1945

Runtime

0h 22m

Genres

War, Documentary

User Score

65%

Original Title

Death Mills

Production Companies

U.S. Army Signal Corps

Director

Hans Burger

Description

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film includes accounts of the economic aspects of the camps' operation, the interrogation of captured camp personnel, and the enforced visits of the inhabitants of neighboring towns, who, along with the rest of their compatriots, are blamed for complicity in the Nazi crimes - one of the few such condemnations in the Allied war records.