Nazis' cinematic crimes.

• Author: Balko, Radley
• Position: Briefly Noted - Brief article

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Until recently, one reel of Nazishot film has been the source of all available footage of the Warsaw ghetto. But in 1998, a British researcher found a second reel in a storage room at an American Air Force base. In A Film Unfinished, director Yael Hersonski publicly airs this new footage for the first time--and reveals that the images the world has for decades associated with the Warsaw ghetto were staged. In this reel of "outtakes," Nazi propagandists recruit the few healthy, comparatively better off Jews for carefully crafted scenes aimed to demonstrate...