Overview
- Description
- Rear shot of tank entering camp, passes barbed wire fence. Pans to sign on left of entrance. Sign reads, "This is the site of the Infamous Belsen Concentration Camp. Liberated by the British ca. 15 April 1945. 10,000 unburied dead were found. Another 13,000 have since died. All of them victims of the German new order in Europe. And an example of Nazi Kultur." Same LS, pan to sign across deserted land, barbed wire, smoke in BG. More torching of buildings. Fast pan across lots of tiny brush fires. Soldiers on tank drive through camp.
- Duration
- 00:01:01
- Date
-
Event:
1945 May 20
- Locale
-
Bergen-Belsen,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Imperial War Museums
- Contributor
-
Camera Operator:
Martin Wilson
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 17:19:02:00 to 17:20:03:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 10 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 10 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 10 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 10 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 10 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 10 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 10 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 10 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Imperial War Museums
- Conditions on Use
- For licensing enquiries and requests, contact Imperial War Museums (IWM) at filmcommercial@iwm.org.uk. IWM also offers limited services for non-commercial parties, such as for museums, armed forces, veterans and their immediate family, family history researchers, and students. For such purposes, contact film@iwm.org.uk.
- Copyright Holder
- Imperial War Museums
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection of film segments about the liberation of Belsen from the Imperial War Museum in London in March 1991.
- Copied From
- 35mm positive b/w
- Film Source
- Imperial War Museums
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 207
Source Archive Number: A700/347/1-4 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:59:37
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1000262
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