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Atrocity Film Fabian Schmidt, Alexander Oliver Zöller
Abstract
What if the SS as the main Nazi organisation responsible for the Holocaust produced a secret !lm about the persecution and murder of the European Jews during World War 2? The essay discusses the possible production of a documentary !lm about the genocide, made by the perpetrators. In doing so, it challenges a set of assumptions that is commonly put into action against such an endeavour. By examining the various activities of private and o"cial photographers and cameramen in the context of the deportation and extermination of the European Jews and by drawing on contemporary sources which hint to such a – now lost – !lm project, the essay examines the available evidence and investigates comparable footage, arguing that the gaze of the perpetrators has long been part of our collective visual memory of the Holocaust.
Keywords
Holocaust, visual propaganda, documentary !lm, !lm archives, concentration camps, ghettos, Reichs!lmarchiv, Budd Schulberg
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17892/app.2021.00012.223http://dx.doi.org/10.17892/app.2021.00012.223http://dx.doi.org/10.17892/app.2021.00012.223
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