US Army Air Corps WWII Films
Lorentz went on to serve in the US Army Air Corps during World War II. He was promoted to the rank of colonel. While serving, he made 275 navigational films and minor documentaries for the Office of War Information and the US Information Agency, and filmed over 2,500 hours of bombing raids. In 1946, Lorentz made a federally-funded movie about the Nuremberg trials which was intended to help educate the German people as to what had happened during the war. In the process of compiling material, Lorentz reviewed over a million hours of footage about the Nazis and their atrocities. The film that resulted, Nuremberg, played to "capacity audiences" in Germany for two years. However, it was not released in the United States until 1979.
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