Incorporating film into a study of the Holocaust

Newsreels, propaganda movies, and feature films produced and shown during Hitler's rule provide a wealth of evidence in regard to how the Nazis and the Allies perceived the Nazis' words, threats and actions against the Jews. Some early Nazi feature films are mentioned. A sampling of the films produced at the time by Great Britain, the US, the USSR reveals what they knew about Hitler's anti-Jewish policies. The shocking footage shot by Allied troops when they entered the concentration camps testifiied to the systematic slaughter of European Jewry. Lists the author's suggestions in regard to those films that illustrate the facts of the Holocaust particularly well and are ideal for use in a high school classroom