Alfred Hitchcocks "Memory of the Camps"

In 1945, Hitchcock served as "treatment advisor" (in effect, a film editor) for a Holocaust documentary produced by the British Army. The film, which recorded the liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps, remained unreleased until 1985, when it was completed by PBS Frontline and distributed under the title Memory of the Camps.

The Hitchcock Documentary on The Nazi Holocaust [at the Belsen Camp]: is a 53-minute film the British and is one of Hitchcock’s unfinished projects. “Memory of the Camps” was intended primarily for German audiences. According to Patrick McGilligan, in his excellent "Alfred Hitchcock -- A Life in Darkness and Light," Hitchcock finished about 55 minutes before funding was suspended, after qualms by the British military command and foreign office and the U.S. State Department. When it was shown publicly in 1984, music critic and columnist Norman Lebrecht called the uncompleted film "Truth at its most naked." "