Death Mills

Death Mills (1945)

Die Todesmühlen

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder.

Date of release
1945-07-10
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (13)
Runtime
22m
Genres
War, Documentary
Director
Hans Burger, Billy Wilder

Casting

Interesting facts

Death Mills is a 1945 American-German film directed by Billy Wilder and produced by the United States Department of War. The film was intended for German audiences to educate them about the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime. For the German version, Die Todesmühlen, Hanuš Burger is credited as the writer and director, while Wilder supervised the editing. Wilder is credited with directing the English-language version; however, he later said that he didn't direct anything as "there was nothing to direct".

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