Nazi Germany and The Holocaust Research Guide

The Stranger" - a 1946 film by (and starring) Orson Welles - is believed to be the first post-war movie to include newsreel clips of Nazi concentration camps. It received an Academy-Award nomination for best screenplay.

The story features Franz Kindler, a former high-ranking Nazi (presumably modeled after Martin Bormann) who has escaped Germany. Since no photos of him exist, Kindler is able to elude capture (and trial) by the War Crimes Commission. Leaving Europe, he travels to America where he settles in a small Connecticut town. As part of his new life, Kindler has a new name (Charles Rankin) and a new job (professor at a prep school).

Sixty years ago, in the spring of 1945, Allied forces liberating Europe found evidence of atrocities which have tortured the world's conscience ever since. As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic film record of what they saw. Work began in the summer of 1945 on the documentary, but the film was left unfinished.