Theresienstadt (1944)

• 33%
• 1944
• Documentaire
• Paul Eppstein
• Karel Fischer
• Kurt Gerron

This is the only film known to be made by the Nazis inside an operating concentration camp. L'allemagne Ministère de la Propagande produced this 1944 film about Theresienstadt, "the model" ghetto established by the Nazis en 1941 à Terezín, a town in the former Czechoslovakia. Joseph Goebbels intended to use the film to prove to the International Red Cross and the world that Jews were being well-treated in the camps. The film, however, is an elaborately staged canular presenting a completely false picture of camp life. Upon completion, the director and most of the cast of prisoners were shipped to Auschwitz. Only a few survived to médical to the fausseté of the film. Includes study guide.