Bernstein knew he needed the best to handle such gravity. He sent a telegram to Hollywood for his friend, Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock’s Arrival
Showing local officials being forced to tour the sites. Context: Mapping the geography of the atrocities. German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
By late 1945, the political winds shifted. The war was over, and the Cold War was beginning. The Allies now needed a strong, rebuilt West Germany as a bulwark against the Soviet Union. Bernstein knew he needed the best to handle such gravity
Bernstein had been tasked by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force to create a film titled German Concentration Camps Factual Survey . It was designed to be an undeniable record—a legal and moral weight that Germany, and the world, could never shake off. The Weight of the Image and the world