https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/apr/07/what-they-found-review-sam-mendess-debut-documentary-has-the-power-to-change-viewers-for-ever Then come the pictures no one can ever forget. Belsen contained thousands more dead who had to be moved by the truckload to mass graves. Lewis and Lawrie are there as these figures – more shocking because they are naked, more grotesque because starvation has robbed them of a recognisable human shape – are transported to 20ft-deep holes and then thrown, pushed or rolled in, their fragile limbs twisting unnaturally as they fall and join the pile. Lawrie says: “As the days went on, the bodies – they were dummies, they were dolls. You lost contact. Reality went.” These few minutes of the film, surely among the most disturbing images ever shown on British TV, are more or less the whole piece: I've got eighteen months of video that are as or more disturbing although it's probably accurate in that they haven't been shown on British TV. The double standards make me angry beyond anything I want to type here. |
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