Holocaust: Night Will Fall: Ch4 9pm.

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The extraordinary story of the Allied forces who filmed the terrible scenes in the Nazi concentration camps, and Sidney Bernstein's attempt to produce a documentary of what they found.

According to the trailer, this documentary was made soon after the war, but, deemed too shocking to release!

I got the impression that this might be the first time it has been shown?

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LaurasOtherHalf said:

Tango13 said:

LaurasOtherHalf said:

There hasn't been a single war where "war crimes" haven't taken place. Collateral damage you might say.

(I'm not trying to dismiss it by the way, but when you consider what all these young men saw and experienced it's really not unexpected unfortunately)

It's certainly a difficult one to call. On the one side the guards should have been given a fair trial with legal representation etc so the US troops were in reality guilty of war crimes but on the other hand they bypassed a lot of legal arguements and the guards simply got what was coming to them anyway.

Did you see Freddie Knoller's story the other night? He spent time with the French resistance blowing up trains that almost certainly didn't contain 100% nazi killers.

& yet the guy is a hero and quite rightly an inspiration to many. In war, bad st happens.

They were in the fifth year of the biggest war in history, we are in no position to judge them!

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Adrian W said:

Legacywr said:

They were in the fifth year of the biggest war in history, we are in no position to judge them!

Oh course we are, next you'll be denying it ever happened, what a stupid thing to say.

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I'm referring to the claims that some of the liberating troops shot the SS guards on the spot! :/