Another new documentary on the european Arte TV channel:
The secret depots of Buchenwald
- Solving a puzzle -
A german MDR production from the year 2020
Translation from the Arte topic page:
"In April 1945, members of the U.S. Army discovered two secret bunkers filled with tons of looted goods in the quarry of the former Buchenwald concentration camp. More than 40 years later, a mysterious sketch turns up in the National Archives in Washington. Is there more looted property stored in Buchenwald? In October 2019 an excavation began in the quarry ..."
Link to the Arte topic page: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/091172-00 ... uchenwald/
The online stream is av. at Arte from today until january 06th, 2021
Hans1906
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Arte: The secret depots of Buchenwald (2020)
Arte: The secret depots of Buchenwald (2020)
The paradise of the successful lends itself perfectly to a hell for the unsuccessful. (Bertold Brecht on Hollywood)
Re: Arte: The secret depots of Buchenwald (2020)
Rest of the translation from Arte:
"At the end of the 1980s, during research by the American historian Kenneth Alford in the National Archives in Washington, a mysterious hand-painted sketch appeared rather by chance. It shows the quarry of the Buchenwald concentration camp, with eight bunkers drawn in. They are probably tunnels that the Nazis drove into the mountain shortly before the end of the war. Two tunnels were discovered and opened by the U.S. Army in 1945 after their arrival in Buchenwald based on corresponding information. The helpers who were called together recovered tons of looted material that was brought to Frankfurt am Main, the traces of which were later lost in their entirety. The Americans knew nothing about the six other tunnels. There was no sketch back then. But since their discovery, experts and scientists, as well as the historian Dr. Harry Stein from the Buchenwald Memorial, have been puzzling over what is really still hidden in the mountain. Due to the research of the journalist and filmmaker Peter-Hugo Scholz, the chain of evidence became stronger and stronger. As a result, the scientific board of trustees of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation gave the green light to open the mountain and finally solve the mystery. What is the significance of the additional galleries from the sketch? Do they really exist? What is hidden in them? A film team accompanied and documented the excavation work. On its search for clues, it reveals a previously untold story."
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Hans1906
"At the end of the 1980s, during research by the American historian Kenneth Alford in the National Archives in Washington, a mysterious hand-painted sketch appeared rather by chance. It shows the quarry of the Buchenwald concentration camp, with eight bunkers drawn in. They are probably tunnels that the Nazis drove into the mountain shortly before the end of the war. Two tunnels were discovered and opened by the U.S. Army in 1945 after their arrival in Buchenwald based on corresponding information. The helpers who were called together recovered tons of looted material that was brought to Frankfurt am Main, the traces of which were later lost in their entirety. The Americans knew nothing about the six other tunnels. There was no sketch back then. But since their discovery, experts and scientists, as well as the historian Dr. Harry Stein from the Buchenwald Memorial, have been puzzling over what is really still hidden in the mountain. Due to the research of the journalist and filmmaker Peter-Hugo Scholz, the chain of evidence became stronger and stronger. As a result, the scientific board of trustees of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation gave the green light to open the mountain and finally solve the mystery. What is the significance of the additional galleries from the sketch? Do they really exist? What is hidden in them? A film team accompanied and documented the excavation work. On its search for clues, it reveals a previously untold story."
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Hans1906
The paradise of the successful lends itself perfectly to a hell for the unsuccessful. (Bertold Brecht on Hollywood)