Filming the End of the Holocaust

John J. Michalczyk

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English

Bloomsbury
21 April 2016

Film theory & criticism; History; European history; The Holocaust; Second World War

Series: War, Culture and Society

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in these films, some of them made by Hollywood luminaries such as John Ford and Billy Wilder, would go on to have a major impact at the Nuremberg Trials; they helped to indict Nazi officials as the judges witnessed scenes of torture, human experimentation and extermination of Jews and non-Jews in the gas chambers and crematoria. These films, some produced by the Soviets, were integral to the war crime trials that followed the Holocaust and the Second World War, and this book provides a thorough, close analysis of the footage in these films and their historical significance.

Using research carried out at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the US National Archives and the film collection at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, this book explores the rationale for filming the atrocities and their use in the subsequent trials of Nazi officials in greater detail than anything previously published. Including an extensive bibliography and filmography, Filming the End of the Holocaust is an important text for scholars and students of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

By: John J. Michalczyk
Imprint: Bloomsbury
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 345g
ISBN: 9781474282789
ISBN 10: 1474282784
Series: War, Culture and Society
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 21 April 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John J. Michalczyk is Professor and Director of Film Studies at Boston College, USA. He is the author of Conflict Resolution Films (2009) and Confront: Resistance in Nazi Germany (2003).

Reviews for Filming the End of the Holocaust

Michalczyk's study of Holocaust films is almost half taken up with scholarly apparatus: a chronology (1934-1962), a bibliography of the Nuremberg trials, a bibliography of Holocaust film, an annotated filmography (21 films), and a lengthy index. The text proper is solemn and intense. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- P. H. Stacy, emeritus, University of Hartford CHOICE [This] volume surveys a broad range of too-little-known Holocaust documentaries ... [and] makes an individual contribution to this still understudied area of research. CINEASTE Michaelczyk's perspective helps us better understand how attitudes towards German perpetrators eventually attained their present forms. English Historical Review