German film historians are compiling what they hope will be a comprehensive database of films on the Holocaust to be accessible on the Internet, project director Ronny Loewy said.
Loewy said Monday there are between 6,000 and 8,000 complete films and partial sequences on the Holocaust in existence and by putting a list of them online, both historians and laypeople would for the first time have a complete record of cinematic documents on that period.
A group of film experts has been working on the effort, organized by Frankfurt's Fritz Bauer institute, since 1992 and recently put a database of information on 1,000 films on the Holocaust online.
The Fritz Bauer institute has collected about another 2,000 films, including feature films, documentaries and propaganda for cinema and television, as well as unedited sequences and footage taken by the United States Army after it liberated concentration camps.
The historians will include contemporary films on the Holocaust as well as historical footage in the archive, which can be accessed on www.Fritz-Bauer-Institut.de -- FRANKFURT (AFP)
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