This is a truly outstanding film. What it achieves is a true glimpse of the horror of man's inhumanity to man. We cannot truly understand the full extent of the evils perpetrated by the Nazi war machine, totally devoid of a speck of human compassion, and what went on day by day over years of the most vile persecution. This documentary tells us what the filmmakers found when they went to Belsen, Dachau etc. This glimpse in itself is mind numbing. What must it have been like to live through it? We can only imagine.
The tortured souls in this film look like they were in "hell on earth". In fact, I would never have imagined hell being this brutalizing. The emaciated bodies, sunken eyes, glazed looks of men, women and children staggering around speaks for itself. This must never happen again. Yet, we know that unimaginable brutality still goes on around the world today. Maybe not as organized and efficient as the war machine in this film but the twisted and hateful minds of human beings is still at work in this world.
This film needs to be shown. Some would object to the graphic pictures on the screen but this is what the Allied forces found when the arrived. Modern film makers could never reproduce evil on this scale.
This is not a spoiler because most of us know what happened. What we need is a reminder of how false prophets can lead a people to such atrocities. The opening scenes show huge crowds cheering on Hitler and his party. This led 12 years later to the abominations that were suffered by Jews, clergy, dissidents, homosexuals and others not deemed to fit the plan a master race. Excellent film. We should all watch it.
