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''Night and Fog'' (''Nuit et brouillard'') is a 1956 is a 32-minutes documentary film from France, directed by Creator/AlainResnais.

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''Night and Fog'' (''Nuit et brouillard'') is a 1956 is a 32-minutes French 32-minute documentary film from France, 1956, directed by Creator/AlainResnais.
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* DatedHistory: Being made in the 1950s, the movie contains inacurracies due to the imperfect knowledge of the Holocaust at the time, notably to differenciate concentration and extermination camps. Prior to the 1970s, resistants and political prisoners were thought as the main targets of nazi deportation, and the specific genocide of Jews wasn't as well known.

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* DatedHistory: Being made in the 1950s, the movie contains inacurracies inaccuracies due to the imperfect knowledge of the Holocaust at the time, notably to differenciate differentiate concentration and extermination camps. Prior to the 1970s, resistants resistance members and political prisoners were thought of as the main targets of nazi Nazi deportation, and the specific genocide of Jews wasn't as well known.
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The first commercially-released documentary of the Holocaust, and one that proved quite controversial when it was made. The West Germans tried to stop the film from being screened at Cannes. Resnais's own French government demanded that he obscure a shot of a French policeman standing guard over Jews being rounded up at the Vel d'Hiv.

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The first commercially-released documentary of the Holocaust, and one that proved quite controversial when it was made. The West Germans UsefulNotes/WestGermany tried to stop the film from being screened at Cannes. the Cannes Film Festival. Resnais's own French government demanded that he obscure a shot of a French policeman standing guard over Jews being rounded up at the Vel d'Hiv.
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It is about UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, and specifically, UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's concentration camps. The film opens with color footage from the 1950s of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. A narrator comments on the rise of the Nazis and their construction of concentration camps to punish their enemies. (Oddly, the specific use of death camps for the extermination of the Jews is not dwelt upon.) The film examines the operation of concentration camps: the arrival of victims on cattle cars, how they are shaved and tattooed, their horrifying living conditions in wooden barracks, their use as industrial slave laborers. Prisoners are used as victims in ghastly medical experiments; some are used as sex slaves in brothels. Finally, the film moves on to extermination, showing the gas chambers and the crematoria, as well as the goods that were taken from the dead.

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It is about UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, and specifically, UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's concentration camps. The film opens with color footage from the 1950s of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. A narrator comments on the rise of the Nazis and their construction of concentration camps to punish their enemies. (Oddly, enemies (oddly, the specific use of death camps for the extermination of the Jews is not dwelt upon.) upon).

The film examines the operation of concentration camps: the arrival of victims on cattle cars, how they are shaved and tattooed, their horrifying living conditions in wooden barracks, their use as industrial slave laborers. Prisoners are used as victims in ghastly medical experiments; some are used as sex slaves in brothels. Finally, the film moves on to extermination, showing the gas chambers and the crematoria, as well as the goods that were taken from the dead.
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It is about UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, and specifically, the Nazi concentration camps. The film opens with color footage from the 1950s of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. A narrator comments on the rise of the Nazis and their construction of concentration camps to punish their enemies. (Oddly, the specific use of death camps for the extermination of the Jews is not dwelt upon.) The film examines the operation of concentration camps: the arrival of victims on cattle cars, how they are shaved and tattooed, their horrifying living conditions in wooden barracks, their use as industrial slave laborers. Prisoners are used as victims in ghastly medical experiments; some are used as sex slaves in brothels. Finally, the film moves on to extermination, showing the gas chambers and the crematoria, as well as the goods that were taken from the dead.

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It is about UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, and specifically, the Nazi UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's concentration camps. The film opens with color footage from the 1950s of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. A narrator comments on the rise of the Nazis and their construction of concentration camps to punish their enemies. (Oddly, the specific use of death camps for the extermination of the Jews is not dwelt upon.) The film examines the operation of concentration camps: the arrival of victims on cattle cars, how they are shaved and tattooed, their horrifying living conditions in wooden barracks, their use as industrial slave laborers. Prisoners are used as victims in ghastly medical experiments; some are used as sex slaves in brothels. Finally, the film moves on to extermination, showing the gas chambers and the crematoria, as well as the goods that were taken from the dead.
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* DatedHistory: Being made in the 1950s, the movie contains inacurracies due to the imperfect knowledge of the Holocaust at the time, notably to differenciate concentration and extermination camps. Prior to the 1970s, resistants and political prisoners were thought as the main targets of nazi deportation, and the specific genocide of Jews wasn't as well known.
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The first commercially-released documentary of the Holocaust, and one that proved quite controversial when it was made. The West Germans tried to stop the film from being screened at Cannes. Resnais's own French government demanded that he obscure a shot of a French policeman standing guard over Jews being rounded up at the Vel d' HIV.

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The first commercially-released documentary of the Holocaust, and one that proved quite controversial when it was made. The West Germans tried to stop the film from being screened at Cannes. Resnais's own French government demanded that he obscure a shot of a French policeman standing guard over Jews being rounded up at the Vel d' HIV.
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* TitleDrop: The narration mentions that some of the prisoners were labeled "N.N." for "Nacht und Nebel" political prisoners. Later however the film touches again, talking about how death "chooses in the night and fog" as a train pulls up to Auschwitz.

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* TitleDrop: The narration mentions that some of the prisoners were labeled "N.N." for "Nacht und Nebel" political prisoners. Later however the film touches again, talking about how death "chooses in the night and fog" as a train pulls up to Auschwitz.Auschwitz.
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''Night and Fog'' (''Nuit et brouillard'') is a 1956 short film (32 minutes) from France, directed by Creator/AlainResnais.

It is a documentary of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, and specifically, the Nazi concentration camps. The film opens with color footage from the 1950s of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. A narrator comments on the rise of the Nazis and their construction of concentration camps to punish their enemies. (Oddly, the specific use of death camps for the extermination of the Jews is not dwelt upon.) The film examines the operation of concentration camps: the arrival of victims on cattle cars, how they are shaved and tattooed, their horrifying living conditions in wooden barracks, their use as industrial slave laborers. Prisoners are used as victims in ghastly medical experiments; some are used as sex slaves in brothels. Finally, the film moves on to extermination, showing the gas chambers and the crematoria, as well as the goods that were taken from the dead.

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''Night and Fog'' (''Nuit et brouillard'') is a 1956 short is a 32-minutes documentary film (32 minutes) from France, directed by Creator/AlainResnais.

It is a documentary of about UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, and specifically, the Nazi concentration camps. The film opens with color footage from the 1950s of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. A narrator comments on the rise of the Nazis and their construction of concentration camps to punish their enemies. (Oddly, the specific use of death camps for the extermination of the Jews is not dwelt upon.) The film examines the operation of concentration camps: the arrival of victims on cattle cars, how they are shaved and tattooed, their horrifying living conditions in wooden barracks, their use as industrial slave laborers. Prisoners are used as victims in ghastly medical experiments; some are used as sex slaves in brothels. Finally, the film moves on to extermination, showing the gas chambers and the crematoria, as well as the goods that were taken from the dead.
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* SexSlaves: Some prisoners were used as sex slaves in Nazi brothels.

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The first commercially-released documentary of the Holocaust, and one that proved quite controversial when it was made; the West Germans tried to stop the film from being screened at Cannes.

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The first commercially-released documentary of the Holocaust, and one that proved quite controversial when it was made; the made. The West Germans tried to stop the film from being screened at Cannes.
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* {{Gorn}}: It doesn't get worse than this. The film pulls no punches in showing things like charred corpses in crematoria, piles of severed heads, huge mounds of dead bodies being shoved into pits by bulldozers.

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* {{Documentary}}: The first Holocaust documentary.
* FanDisservice: A shot of nude men at some sort of morning roll call is accompanied by the narrator talking about how the Nazis liked to humiliate their prisoners.
* {{Gorn}}: It doesn't get worse than this. The film pulls no punches in showing things like charred corpses in crematoria, sightless staring eyes, piles of severed heads, huge mounds of dead bodies being shoved into pits by bulldozers.bulldozers.
* {{Narrator}}: French actor Michel Bouquet provides narration. There are no TalkingHeads.



* OminousFog: A shot of a fog-bound train station is used to reinforce the "night and fog" idea.
* SexSlaves: Some prisoners were used as sex slaves in Nazi brothels.



* TestedOnHumans: Horrific RealLife examples of perverted Nazi "science". German doctors studied how to treat phosphorous burns by burning inmates with phosphorous.

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* TestedOnHumans: Horrific RealLife examples of perverted Nazi "science". German doctors studied how to treat phosphorous burns by burning inmates with phosphorous.phosphorous.
* TitleDrop: The narration mentions that some of the prisoners were labeled "N.N." for "Nacht und Nebel" political prisoners. Later however the film touches again, talking about how death "chooses in the night and fog" as a train pulls up to Auschwitz.
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''Night and Fog'' (''Nuit et brouillard'') is a 1956 short film (32 minutes) from France, directed by Creator/AlainResnais.

It is a documentary of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, and specifically, the Nazi concentration camps. The film opens with color footage from the 1950s of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. A narrator comments on the rise of the Nazis and their construction of concentration camps to punish their enemies. (Oddly, the specific use of death camps for the extermination of the Jews is not dwelt upon.) The film examines the operation of concentration camps: the arrival of victims on cattle cars, how they are shaved and tattooed, their horrifying living conditions in wooden barracks, their use as industrial slave laborers. Prisoners are used as victims in ghastly medical experiments; some are used as sex slaves in brothels. Finally, the film moves on to extermination, showing the gas chambers and the crematoria, as well as the goods that were taken from the dead.

The first commercially-released documentary of the Holocaust, and one that proved quite controversial when it was made; the West Germans tried to stop the film from being screened at Cannes.

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* {{Gorn}}: It doesn't get worse than this. The film pulls no punches in showing things like charred corpses in crematoria, piles of severed heads, huge mounds of dead bodies being shoved into pits by bulldozers.
* TheNounAndTheNoun: The film takes its title from the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacht_und_Nebel Nacht und Nebel]]" decree by Adolf Hitler, in which opponents of the Nazi regime would simply be disappeared.
* StockFootage: Newsreels, footage taken by the Allies and the Soviets as they entered the camps from east and west. Clips from ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill'' are used to illustrate the rise of the Nazis.
* TestedOnHumans: Horrific RealLife examples of perverted Nazi "science". German doctors studied how to treat phosphorous burns by burning inmates with phosphorous.

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