The uncut version of the Nazi film, “The Warsaw Ghetto,” was shown privately to critics today after it was confirmed that the film will not be distributed for public showings because the Plato Film Company has refused to comply with the British Censor’s demands for cuts of some of the more gruesome scenes.
The Daily Telegraph film commentator, one of those who saw the uncensored version, said that several films of Nazi atrocities had been shown in Britain since the end of the war but “none more harrowing than this.” He said that “death by starvation” recorded in the film appeared to him to be “even more appalling than by gas.”
The film was one that could be viewed” only by those with the strongest stomachs and nerves,” he stated. If the film is to be shown at all, he said, it should “surely be shown uncut. The depravity of the Nazi episode should not be diminished.”
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