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Liberation at Dachau

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1992.261.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0661 | Film ID: 307

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    Liberation at Dachau
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    Description
    MCU Stevens and GI in parkas stand in front of Toluca jeep.

    US Army comes across railcars filled with dead prisoners in Dachau and assists survivors. LS along row of boxcars on railroad siding, GIs in distance, snow on ground. GI walks into FG looking at cars. MS corpse of inmate in striped uniform lies on gravel beside track, CU. Snow-covered corpse curled in corner of boxcar. MS from behind, GIs looking down at dead SS man, CU battered face, other dead SS. Frozen bodies of dead prisoners covered in snow in boxcar, CU of haunting face, pile of bodies in doorway of boxcar, GI photographs, CU of bodies. MCU of dead prisoner in striped uniform curled beside railroad track. Another pile of bodies covered by snow, bare feet.

    LS Dachau courtyard, Red Cross marked trucks in front of large long building which had been part of camp. CU of SS marking on side of building, LS of former SS barracks, people walking across courtyard. Survivors stand and squat eating and smoking around small fire stoves inside the camp, gate in BG. Good CUs of men around stoves. CU of bowl of cereal and can of heating powdered milk. MS former inmates in civilian dress standing around on sidewalk next to barrack, pan left to rows of laid out corpses covered by blankets. Pile of prison uniforms in BG. CU of their faces in a row. CU of emaciated uncovered corpses. LS wagon piled high with loaves of bread being unloaded and lined up on tables by inmates, prisoner wearing French armband, others with Xs or 2 parallel strips on coats. Young boy in cap scraping bottom of barrel. MCU as group of survivors carry wrapped up body by on mattress, the person may still be alive, CU of mattress, head appears to move. Men line up and are deloused. Good shots. Two young survivors in caps and uniforms walk through Dachau. LS to CU as men pull large wagon of soup kettles toward camera. LS GIs walking past pile of what turn out to be bodies in front of crematorium. Flame visible. Shot kennels and piles of clothing, MS of clothing hung up off ground next to barrack, huge mound of clothing. Stacked naked corpses outside crematorium. MCU pan of the dead. CU of the bodies which include a prosthesis for a leg. MS, pile of dead SS men lined up along fence, CU of SS insignia on coat. CUs of dead. Survivors wrapped in blankets sitting on back of flatbed truck, CUs, MS group in striped uniforms stands next to truck. Pan to naked corpse on litter in FG.

    Crowd of survivors swarm around truck, may be striking at someone. Germans with hands up as survivors walk around, GIs observing, perhaps trying to determine if some men in prison uniforms are Germans trying to mix into the camp population. CU of Germans with hands up, one with a bandaged eye. Survivors going down line trying to identify former captors along with a GI in a cap with a striking profile. Former prisoners talk to men with hands up. CU of young German prisoners talking to same GI. LS of line of men filing into building, GI guard at door and GIs come out.

    LS ceremony in courtyard, men gathered around podium, flags waving including American and one with the Dachau symbol in center. Good CUs of many flags. British, Russian and US flags flying from roof of camp building. LS podium, cameraman filming, pan to men and flags waiting. Good MCU of survivors, many still in striped uniforms, looking into camera. Speaker at podium. MLS of US Army chaplain and Rabbi David Max Eichhorn conducting religious service - reaction shot as the audience looks up at him. This was the first Jewish religious service honoring the Jews who died as a result of Nazi persecution in Dachau.
    Duration
    00:12:19
    Date
    Event:  May 2-7, 1945
    Production:  1945 May
    Locale
    Dachau, Germany
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Library of Congress
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: Ivan Moffat
    Subject: David M. Eichhorn

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Color
    Image Quality
    Excellent
    Time Code
    01:07:57:00 to 01:20:16:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 307 Video: One Inch - color - NTSC
      Master 307 Video: One Inch - color - NTSC
      Master 307 Video: One Inch - color - NTSC
      Master 307 Video: One Inch - color - NTSC
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 307 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
      Preservation 307 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
      Preservation 307 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
      Preservation 307 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
    • User
    • User 307 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color
      User 307 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color
      User 307 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color
      User 307 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    George Stevens Jr.
    Conditions on Use
    George Stevens, Jr. owns the copyright to this film. Researchers must contact the Library of Congress at mpref@loc.gov for permission to reproduce and use this film material.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased these film segments from the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress in February 1992.
    Note
    VHS version contains complete Reels 4 and 14 of the George Stevens Collection at LOC. The 1" and Betacam SP were supervised transfers of only relevant footage, for use only in the USHMM Permanent Exhibit (Americans Encounter the Camps).

    Additional documentation reporting Rabbi David Max Eichhorn's depiction of this religious service at Dachau located in USHMM departmental files.
    Copied From
    16mm camera original pos. Kodachrome reversal
    Film Source
    Library of Congress - Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS)
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 0361
    Source Archive Number: R4 clip
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:56:45
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