Lost Airmen of Buchenwald (2021)

Chronicles the littleknown story of Allied airmen imprisoned at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in the waning months of World War II In the summer of 1944 168 airmen from the US England Canada and other Allied countries were captured in Paris by the German Gestapo and sent to the infamous Koncentration Lager Buchenwald in Germany Falsely accused of being terrorists and saboteurs the airmen faced a terrifying fight for survival and a race against time to escape their execution A controversial moment in history that their home countries tried to hushup Lost Airmen of Buchenwald tells this harrowing story through interviews with seven surviving members of the group including their heroic commanding officer The film follows them from their days hiding with the French Resistance to the darkest corners of the Holocaust where they struggled to survive as Germany collapsed under the weight of the advancing Russian and Allied armies