Filming the End of the Holocaust: Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
John J. Michalczyk's engaging new book examines films that were used in trials of Nazi war criminals, and how such films were employed during and after the war to persuade audiences of the Germans' guilt. At Nuremberg in 1945 Robert H. Jackson, U.S. chief prosecutor, made it clear that he...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 150-152 |
| Review of: | Filming the end of the Holocaust (London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) (Prager, Brad)
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| Summary: | John J. Michalczyk's engaging new book examines films that were used in trials of Nazi war criminals, and how such films were employed during and after the war to persuade audiences of the Germans' guilt. At Nuremberg in 1945 Robert H. Jackson, U.S. chief prosecutor, made it clear that he was going to include films as evidence—uncharted territory for a groundbreaking trial. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcw019 |