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German concentration camps factual survey is an outstanding achievement. The footage was gathered by the us department of defense as part of the effort to conduct war crimes trials. Memory of the camps 2014 changes the movie database tmdb. This hugely important film documents the liberation of belsen and other concentration camps by allied forces in spring 1945.
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