Virtual Topographies of Memory Liberation Films as Mobile Models of Atrocity Sites

The films and footage, which the Allies recorded in the liberated concentra-tion and extermination camps as well as at other atrocity sites, shaped the future iconography of the camps. Using imagery from various camps, later film compilations created “virtual” sites that served as typifying representations of “the” concentration camp. This chapter intends to review atrocity footage and its later use as constitutive elements of such virtual topographies. By analyzing the raw footage as it is preserved in archives dispersed around the world, early atrocity films, documentary compilations, virtual models, video games, digital tours, and online platforms, we demonstrate how the historical visual evidence of the camps turned into mobile virtual models of destroyed or lost visible traces of former concentration camps.