An Alfred Hitchcock's unseen documentary about the Holocaust, which was suppressed for political reasons, will soon be released for the first time, it has been reported.
Hitchcock was asked to assemble footage shot by a British army film unit cameraman of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, the Guardian reported. But the resulting documentary, which had been commissioned in an attempt to inform and educate the German populace about the atrocities carried out by the Nazis in their name, was ultimately held back. It was not shown at all until 1984, in an incomplete version at the Berlin film festival, and was missing a sixth reel and in poor quality when it was screened on the PBS network in the US a year later.
Now the film, retrospectively titled 'Memory of the Camps,' is to finally see the light of day in a format Hitchcock would have approved of. The film is due to be broadcast on British television in 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Europe.
