TIL The Stranger (1946) was the first Hollywood film to include footage of the Holocaust. The film's director, Orson Welles, who saw footage at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in May 1945, described the newsreels as "putrefaction of the soul, a perfect spiritual garbage"
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>"What we tend to forget today is that in the 1940s a large percentage of the population could not believe that the Nazi death camps were real," said Bret Wood.[11]: 100:50 Welles had seen the footage in early May 1945[11]: 102:03 in San Francisco,[16]: 56 as a correspondent and discussion moderator at the United Nations Conference on International Organization.[8]: 304 [17] Welles wrote of the Holocaust footage in his syndicated column for the New York Post (May 7, 1945).[16]: 56–57
>>No, you must not miss the newsreels. They make a point this week no man can miss: The war has strewn the world with corpses, none of them very nice to look at. The thought of death is never pretty but the newsreels testify to the fact of quite another sort of death, quite another level of decay. This is a putrefaction of the soul, a perfect spiritual garbage. For some years now we have been calling it Fascism. The stench is unendurable.[16]: 56–57 [18]
Also the film is in the public domain so of you want to watch it here you go, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQszOyQTxi4 or https://archive.org/details/TheStranger720p