During World War II on December 07, 1941 Adolf Hitler, the German Chancellor issued '
Nacht und Nebel' (The Night of the Fog decree).
'Missing Persons' terminology is quintessential criminal act that was first adopted by Adolf Hitler in his
Nacht und Nebel Erlass (Night and Fog Decree) of December 7, 1941.
These camps intentionally cut their inhabitants off from the outside world, erasing them as civil subjects when the abbreviation NN (
Nacht und Nebel Erlass) was affixed to their jackets.
And several artists open up the political dimensions of viewpoint by using and re-posing documentary material such as interviews, letters, and archives-among them, Dani Gal's "
Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog)," a treatment of the 1961 Eichmann trial, and Marinella Senatore's radio play on factory conditions in Venice and Marghera.
We do not know how many hundreds of thousands have been massacred in Darfur because genocidal governments prefer
Nacht und Nebel, Night and Fog, to hide their actions.
In Germany in 1941 this tactic was called "
Nacht Und Nebel Erlass" (the "Night and Fog Decree").
Floris Bakels'
Nacht und Nebel does precisely this: here we have graphic descriptions of men disembowelled by repeated kicks to the crutch and public hangings that were in fact strangulations lasting anything up to forty-five minutes.
It was also good that the same day all the French television channels showed
Nacht und Nebel (Nnight and Fog"), a film about Nazi concentration camps.