Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog) — Poland
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 clothing. For the first time, the world saw photographic proof of the Holocaust's industrial scale.