Having seen the film and being decongestants generation Holocaust my Parents went through the Hell .My mother was in Bergen Belson .Nazis were Sadistic Psychpaths .Some like Kramer commandant at Bergin Belson were convicted and shot .Too many escaped - Mengele the sadistic monster at Aushwitz Franz Stangl commandant at Treblinka and Sobibor Eichman for fifteen years yet the Jews in torture chamber wrote Nekadma in Blood urging Just revenge when the Jews had Power .There were post War hunters .Kovner is believed to have led a group but they had plans that were too cruel to civilians .Ben Gurion even the Irgun did not do much .There is an argument That after the Shoah Just revenge on the Nazis then declare the State .

"Unless the world learn the lessons these pictures teach, night will fall". Well, looking around, the world hasn't learned anything and all the signs point to the fact that night will fall.

I showed this film every year I taught US History or Government classes. Some years, I required parent permission for students to watch it- the film is such an overwhelming spectacle of human degradation, especially for 16 year olds. My understanding is that the narration of Trevor Howard, corrosive in its indignation, was added years latter to the silent footage that Hitchcock had assembled. I can't imagine what the new footage could possibly add that wouldn't send the viewer over the edge to numbness. I'll add that, over the years I have become less of a supporter of the state of Israel, but, this film should be seen by everyone.