Why... ..Nazi concentration camps... ..in film?

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Why are all the Nazi concentration camps always liberated by the Yanks, in film?

Surely, Europeans would have had the majority role in their liberation, as all the Nazi concentration camps were in Europe and the Europeans out-numbered the Yanks by the 1,000,000s then?
 
Errmm, maybe it's because the USA has enough megabucks to not only make movies, but also through getting them out there, to distort history as well.

And in the meantime, poorer countries who could give a more accurate account, are relished to the cutting room floor :cool::)
 
I suspect that if you watched Russian war films you'd find them liberating the camps, which were mainly in Poland.

As JTW said, if Americans make the films they will show their troops, who did actually liberate some of the camps in Germany.
 
Belson was liberated by the British.

Auschwitz by the Red Army.

Buchenwald was liberated by the Americans after a partial uprising.

Dachau was liberated by the Americans.

Sobib
 
I used to work with an old guy that was one of the first in to liberate Belson.
He died about 10 years ago now and it still haunted him. He used to say how you could smell the place many miles away.
 
Didn't you know? The Yanks liberated all the camps, cracked the Enigma code, and captured Berlin. The British & Russians were busy guarding U-Boat crews who didn't want their chips "soggy".
 
I am sure it was totally horrific, I recall seeing documentary footage of the camps shot by Alfred Hitchcock when they first liberated them, he shot it as it was and you can almost smell the death coming from the corpses piled up or being moved into graves.
The faces of the liberators also captures the impact.
I realise that Hollywood is to entertain on various levels etc but hope that the reality of the holocaust never gets diminished by its use as a storyline for entertainment sake.

I am also glad that we are now starting to also look at Germany post WW2, for some people they had eight years of Nazi oppression but had five times that amount of oppression from the Soviets.
 
True and a very good movie about Stasi and living under the stasi regime is "The Lives of Others "(original German: Das Leben der Anderen)

If you havn't then see it, it's very good!! Imo of course:)
 
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