preppy-3 31 minute short about the concentration camps of WW2. It opens with beautiful footage from 1955 of the deserted camps. The sky is blue, birds are flying, grass is growing. Then the film shifts to b&w footage of the Nazis deporting hundreds of people to the death camps. We see graphic footage of what they did to those poor people intercut with beautiful color footage. Also there's matter of fact narration and a music score.I first saw this in high school back in 1980. It didn't shock or horrify me. I still feel the same way years later. The intrusive music score and sometimes insipid narration keep you at arms length. There was zero emotional impact from me despite the images. "Schindler's List" and "Shoah" covered all this material already. So it IS essential viewing but it didn't work for me sadly.

Ankush Jindal I found it such a masterpiece that I took the chance to write my first review. The most accurate and vivid image of Holocaust. If you want to know about Holocaust, just watch this documentary. I am usually not affected by any form of violence/gore or intense scene. But this film!! One cannot watch it in single run. And at the end, I sat unmoving, silent for hours. The last line generalized the concentration camp to inhumanity of man towards man and the past to present. ""We pretend it all happened only once. at a given time and place. We turn a blind eye to what surrounds us. and a deaf ear to humanity's never-ending cry.""

Sean Lamberger Filmed just ten years after their closure, this is one of the earliest cinematic glances ever taken at the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, and it pulls no punches. Harrowing stills and snippets of film from the height of the genocide are interspersed with long, lingering shots of the cracked, overgrown concrete shells left behind, while a stirring narration pulls the audience into the victims' shoes. It's terribly difficult material, but the sensitive, carefully written voice-over frames things in a way that's honest and factual without feeling aggressive or exploitative. That French vocal track moves quickly, so I had trouble keeping up with the subtitles on a few occasions, but considering the breadth of observations it crams into a very short running time, I think that's forgivable. Extremely dark, heavy, emotional stuff that shouldn't be forgotten, my only qualm is with the absurdly cheery, generic stock music that fleshes out the background in a few scenes.

prettyh I've seen an awful lot of Holocaust documentaries (both for scholastic purposes and for writing research), and thought I'd seen everything that could shock me by now. Then I watched "Night And Fog." It's truly amazing how much poignant footage can be captured in a slight 31 minutes. Yes, there are plenty of familiar scenes for those of us who know our history (and who've seen the excellent BBC series like "Nazis: A Warning From History" and "Inside Auschwitz"), but there are moments in "Night..." that genuinely took my breath away, such as a lingering shot of a building whose sole purpose was to store the hair shorn from prisoners and later sold by the Nazis to wig makers and the like. That scene kicked me in the gut as hard as, if not harder than, the more familiar one we've seen of the warehouse full of shoes taken from prisoners before they went to their deaths.Short, to the point, astonishingly well shot, and gut-wrenching. I agree with the other reviewers who've said this should be mandatory viewing in history classes. If more documentaries could pack the punch that "Night And Fog" has done, perhaps history would be less likely to repeat itself. A must-see.