Inside Alfred Hitchcock’s Lost Holocaust Documentary

The Daily Beast ^ | 1/17/2015 | Marlow Stern

[DFG]

In 1945, Britain’s army film unit commissioned a sprawling doc on the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, supervised by Hitchcock. A new film explores the forgotten masterpiece.

It is, perhaps, the greatest documentary never made.

Back in 1945, Sidney Bernstein, the chief of the Psychological Warfare Film Section of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, was commissioned to create the definitive documentary chronicling the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Bernstein’s aim was, in his words, to “prove one day that this had actually happened” and have it serve as “a lesson to all mankind as well as to the Germans.”

[newnhdad]

I can tell everyone what happened and I don’t need to watch a movie.
A charismatic socialist leader with his own logo who had followers that looked up to him as a deity led the mind numbed disparate groups into blaming all their ills on another group that didn’t take the leader seriously. He took control of the media and put out false stories that were not questioned and even promoted by a once skeptical media out of fear. He seized the banks and forced companies into working toward his end by allowing their leaders to keep some profits all the while railing against profit and companies. He purged the military leadership replacing them with people totally devoted to him and his causes of socialism.

The people became wary of said leader but didn’t want to stand-up out of fear which allowed him to carry out his final solution to society’s ills which he felt would cement his legacy in world history.

sounding familiar yet?

The only difference is that the current leader with his own logo has not advocated for the death of the opposition group in public.

[Yulee]

From the last link:
“You cannot wage a war with an insurance policy in your pocket. You cannot invade a country and shell its cities, and then, when you are thrown back and beaten, declare that the war was a trial on your part and now you would like to have all the advantages of a compromise that you rejected and violated by arms.”

But isn’t this exactly what the UN has allowed the Muslims in the Middle East to do when they attack Israel? Each time they withdraw and give up land for peace, but there is no peace. The only peace is the peace of Islam, which is the destruction of all those who oppose. ISIS is only the latest expression of the vile hate at the center of Islam.

[GOPJ]

A Jewish child in Poland who was taken by his parents to stay with a Gentile family, friends of theirs, was at a grocery with his “adopted” family, and listened to the grocer laugh about how the child’s entire village, including his parents, had been rounded up and hauled away. He never saw anyone from his childhood again, including any member of his family, and it took him some years before he had any trust or love for anyone.

Evil on this level practiced by Nazis is beyond my comprehension. I said a prayer for the young child even though by this time he's probably an old grandfather...

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, that’s who he was talking about.

[SunkenCiv]

Amy whatshername’s book on Stalin is thick, and what I’ve read is illuminating, but I had to quit reading it, when I read things they stick in there, and there are things in there I wish I’d never read.