3 real historical locations · France, Poland
Alain Resnais' landmark 1956 documentary short intercutting contemporary footage of empty concentration camp grounds with archive footage of the camps in operation. One of the first films to confront the Holocaust directly, its final question — who is responsible? — remains unanswered.
CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning France, Poland.
Documentary masterpiece examining the Nazi concentration camp system. Footage from Auschwitz, Majdanek, Struthof.
Directed by Alain Resnais in 1956, Night and Fog was the first major documentary on the Holocaust. The title refers to Hitler's 1941 Nacht und Nebel decree, under which prisoners were made to 'disappear' into the nigh...
View location →Resnais' documentary footage includes the Majdanek camp near Lublin — one of the first camps liberated by the Soviets in July 1944.
Majdanek was liberated on July 23, 1944 largely intact — the Germans did not have time to destroy the evidence. Soviet and Western journalists photographed the gas chambers, crematoria, and warehouses of shoes and clo...
View location →The only Nazi concentration camp on French territory — shown in the documentary as evidence of the Reich's reach into Western Europe.
Natzweiler-Struthof was the only Nazi concentration camp on what is now French territory. It held 52,000 prisoners from 30 countries; approximately 22,000 died. Four women SOE agents were executed here in 1944. The ca...
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