Death Mills (1945) watch online HD

I had to watch some German propaganda movies for film school. They were films like Jud Suss, Der Ewige Jude and the famous Triumph of the Will. Death Mills was included on the DVD of Jud Suss. I saw it was directed by Billy Wilders, so i couldn't hesitate to look what it was about. But maybe i shouldn't have... it is the most disturbing documentary i have ever seen (so far) in my life. It was originally made for the German people to show the horrific events in the camps. We witness everything. From storage rooms filled with sacks of hair, big boxes with golden teeth, glasses, toys and other personal belongings. We witness the gas and torture chambers, 'nursing' rooms and the places where people slept. This is mixed up with big piles of death people. Spread along the many camps. (we see them all) Some still with horrible, just horrible expressions on their faces. Of course there were also some survivors. The only thing they could show is a very very traumatized look.

Above is what i saw in the documentary. And i must say i still feel like **** Let's hope none of this will ever happen in Europe again. And i hope the rest of the world will follow that advice. Avoid at all cost when you have a weak stomach. But props to Billy Wilder for showing this to the world.

That is one of terrible lines of voice-over in this terrifying documentary compiled by Billy Wilder from motion pictures taken of the liberation of the German concentration camps in 1945.

I am an American Jew, born in 1954, and I live my life under the shadow of the Holocaust and the evidence of the evil of human beings. I have always known people with blue numbers tattooed on their arms. My grandfather's second wife was in Warsaw in September 1, 1939, and managed to escape via Arkhangel to the United States by the end of the month. Her son was not so lucky, and managed to survive the Death Camps. He lived the rest of his life in a constant state of terror. One day in the 1970s my cousin brought in a friend who was looking for work and after his friend had left, I asked what would wrong with him. "Both his parents came out of Dachau" answered my cousin.

The images in this movie are images I knew in my nightmare as a child: piles of corpses of skin and bones; walking corpses staring blankly; signs on the gates reading "Arbeit Mach Frei" -- 'Work will free you'; piles of teeth, bales of human hair, barrels of ashes from corpses ready to be sent to German farmers and, of course, the lying Germans who said they didn't know, they had no idea.

They knew. I know.

"Death Mills" is an American English-language documentary from 1945 right from the end of World War II fittingly and this little black-and-white movie that runs for slightly over 20 minutes takes a first insight into liofe and death at concentration camps, which makes it a far more relevant film back then as it is today, but that's only because of everything we know now and should not take away anything from the film's credit. It is a historically important work that has the horrows that shock us the most, but these are also the parts that carry the film's weight as well as burden. It's only because of the 2-3 moments where the film drifts a bit into propaganda for example when it uses statistically and historically incorrect superlatives to describe Hitler. But luckily these are not too frequent and the positive and informative is more frequent in here. Also pay attention to Billy Wilder's background where he is from which may explain his inclusion as director here. This is not from very early in his career. Overall a watch that is as shocking as effective and consequently also as good if you have an interest in this political era and can stomach the visual contents. It's not extraordinary or a must-see, but I give the project as a whole a thumbs-up and recommend checking it out.