Eleven minutes that shattered a lie the world didn't want to believe.
Ralph Rush, a Scout in General George S. Patton's World War II Intelligence & Reconnaisance Platoons went from digging up German mines to being the first American to enter the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp; the first concentration camp liberated by the Allies.
Acting
Rush's trembling first-person account—no actor could replicate this.
Direction
Bernardi lets silence do the screaming. Respects the horror.
Director
Daniel L. Bernardi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ohrdruf was barely taught in US curricula until this documentary circulated in educational packages. Rush's testimony became the human anchor for a footnote.
Rush was 19. He lied about his age to enlist. The film was shot when he was 89—seventy years of carrying what he saw in eleven minutes.
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