Kesselring; Mauthausen at liberation

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2022 | Film ID: 842

Overview

Description: Kesselring Meeting, Zellam See, Austria, May 8, 1945. VS, occupants of a halted convoy study maps. (The convoy of US vehicles, led by German officer in a German vehicle, attempts to make contact with Field Marshal Albert Kesselring.) MSs, convoy of US jeeps and German jeeps passing camera. VS, convoy pulls into hotel area. MLS, train pulls into railroad station at Saalfelden. CU, Nazi insignia. INTs (underexposed footage), meeting between German Gen. Westphal and other officers.

Field Marshal Kesselring, Bertchesgaden, Germany, May 10, 1945. MSs, CUs, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring with Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor pose for photographers. MSs, Marshal Kesselring, Gen. Taylor and Maj. Gen. Gerald J. Higgins. MSs, Marshal Kesselring and unidentified German officer walk through gardens.

Concentration Camp, Mauthausen, Austria, May 11, 1945. MSs, CUs, large pile of naked emaciated bodies awaiting burial. MSs, German civilians with help of bulldozer dig graves. MSs, Group of inmates of camp. Ind CUs, inmates of women's section of camp. CU, woman with young baby/newborn.
Duration: 00:08:13
Date: Event: May 8-11, 1945
Locale: Berchtesgaden, Germany
Mauthausen, Austria
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: Dieves

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 08:10:41:00 to 08:18:54:00
Film Format: Master
Master 842 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 842 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 842 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 842 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation
Preservation 842 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 842 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 842 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 842 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

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Copyright: Public Domain
Conditions on Use: To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
Note: It is possible that Anke Kauderová and Eva Clarke (newborn) appear in the final shot at Mauthausen showing a woman with her baby. Eva Clarke was born on April 29, 1945 at the gates of Mathausen. Her mother, Anke, was on a death march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen arriving April 29. She went into labor as soon as she saw the words Mauthausen. Their story is depicted in Wendy Holden's BORN SURVIVORS (2015).
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 1266
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4326
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive