Holocaust - Concentration Camps Shame Of A Nation - German Concentration Camps

Three separate documentary programmes about the Holocaust. The Liberation Of Auschwitz - The name of Auschwitz evokes images of death, torture and unbearable human suffering. This documentary contains footage recorded in January and February of 1945 by a Soviet film crew attached to the 1st Ukrainian Front, which was used as prosecution evidence at the Nuremberg Trials. At the time of release only 18 minutes of this footage had ever been seen in the west. Captain Alexander Vorontsov, a member of the camera crew, describes how he and his comrades were confronted by the appalling conditions of Hitler's death camp and talks about the emotions they felt at the terrible scenes they witnessed. To preserve the original character of the material, this footage has been left unedited thus emphasising the shocking nature of the crimes recorded. Contains some scenes of a violent and disturbing nature. Dachau And Sachsenhausen - Dachau Concentration Camp was set up in 1933 and situated 12 miles northwest of Munich in Bavaria. Initially the camp housed Communist and Jewish inmates but its doors were soon opened to all other undesirables. Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was situated to the north of Berlin and was one of the largest camps in the German Reich. This historical documentary contains explicit scenes that are of a violent and disturbing nature. Ravensbruck And Buchenwald - Explicit documentary detailing the the horrors perpetrated by the S.S. and the Third Reich in Buchenwald Concentration Camp which was established in the summer of 1937. The inmates were used as slaves and were deliberately starved and beaten to death. Ravensbruck Concentration Camp held women from more than twenty countries between 1939 and 1945. The suffering they endured was horrendous. They were maltreated, humiliated and tortured to death. This documentary is to keep alive the memory of their fate.