JS233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wannsee Conference, Leni Riefenstahl
11 Feb 2016
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Commissioned by a historical committee in france (and commemorated the 10th anniversary of the liberation of camps. Wasn"t released until 1962 in america because it was too depressing, too hard-hitting. France withdrew it as a ilm because it does implicate the french they were always well known for the french resistance, but that during wwii there was more collaboration than resistance. Germans and many of the french jews were basically given up. France was not happy about the ilm (especially the one scene where a guard is watching an assembly point before the people were taken to the concentration camp, and it was a french soldier guarding it. The trains used to transport jews the carts where jews were kept had no windows, no bathrooms, etc. The concentration camps had a hierarchy: the ss guards, the commandant, then the prisoners were implicated (like all oppressive systems): they often placed criminals at the top, beneath the guards.
