skygiants

I think the first feature film that actually engaged with the reality of concentration camps was The Stranger in 1946

The Stranger was the first feature film to include footage of the camps. There are earlier films that engage with the idea or attempt sanitized depictions—I'm afraid some of the links are now dead, but a bunch of examples came up in comments to my post on Mr. Skeffington (1944), because it's the earliest movie of my acquaintance to present a Jewish character who's been through the Holocaust. I note now that it was a Warners production, which makes sense, but its combination of cutting-edge social justice and women's picture soap is still one hundred percent batshit.