Lee Film Reenacts Powerful Moment In History, Remembers Dachau Atrocities

The recent film "Lee" features Kate Winslet in the title role, re-creating the iconic bathtub scene that captured the attention of the world. According to "Mail Online", the scene was meticulously recreated to match the exact image captured on April 30, 1945. The film takes viewers back to a pivotal moment in history, when Playboy photographer Lee Miller, played by Kate Winslet, arrived at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany (Mail Online). At the time, Miller was a decade older than the real Lee Miller, but the image in the film is a perfect match for the one captured on that fateful day. Miller arrived at Dachau from Nuremberg, approximately 100 miles north, on the morning of April 30. She had been tipped off that divisions of the US Seventh Army were heading to Germany's infamous "first and worst" concentration camp, and she had already witnessed the atrocities at Buchenwald... another liberated camp.

Despite the horrific sights she had already seen, Miller was still unprepared for the sheer brutality she encountered at Dachau. As reported by "Mail Online", some Allied troops struggled to accept the evidence of their own eyes, initially believing the camps were propaganda stunts, faked by their own side. However, survivors' accounts and the camps' conditions left no doubt as to their authenticity.

Lieutenant-Colonel Felix Sparks, "commander of the 45th Infantry Division.".. vividly described the camp as "Dante's Inferno" seemed pale compared to the real hell of Dachau" (Mail Online). The film "Lee" provides a powerful and poignant portrayal of this pivotal moment in history, "highlighting the importance of preserving and remembering the atrocities of the past."

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In Lee, the new film featuring Kate Winslet in the title role, the bathtub episode is meticulously re-created. Winslet is a decade older than Miller was, but the image in the film is a perfect match for the one captured on April 30, 1945. Miller arrived at Dachau from Nuremberg, about 100 miles north, on the morning of April 30. She had been tipped off that divisions of the US Seventh Army were heading to Germany 's 'first and worst' concentration camp.