“War crimes commission: Alfred Hitchcock went to England last month to make a film about the Nazi horror camps for the archives and for exhibition to civilians of Germany. In preparation for this job Hitchcock had a private screening of all the horror-camp films—a ten-hour showing”
Lyons, Leonard. "The Lyons Den". Galveston News. August 9, 1945. 5 col 1.
"Alfred Hitchcock, Hollywood producer of mystery thrillers, will appear on tonight's broadcast of 'We, the People' over CBS. Hitchcock has just returned from Germany, where he edited all the German horror pictures in such a way as to command the attention of the German people, who had heretofore shown complete indifference to them"
Foote, Grace. "Of Mikes and Men." Port Arthur News. September 9, 1945. 13 col 2.
Macnab, Geoffrey. "Alfred Hitchcock's unseen Holocaust documentary to be screened." The Independent. January 8, 2014. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/alfred-hitchcocks-unseen-holocaust-documentary-to-be-screened-9044945.html
The Independent's headline is hyperbolic, but possibly there’s some new material: “The Imperial War Museum has painstakingly restored it using digital technology and has pieced together the extra material from the missing sixth reel.” It’s unclear what “pieced together the extra material from the missing sixth reel” means. Did they find parts of it, or other things that can stand in for it? Regardless, the version of it available through PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/camp/ titled "Memory of the Camps" is the most devastating movie I've ever seen.
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