Overview
- Description
- Concentration Camp, Ludgwigslust, Germany, May 5, 1945. LS, concentration camp area. MSs, barracks of camp with bodies of camp victims crowded in open doorway. Screen left-several survivors standing idly about. CU, bodies stacked in doorway of building. CUs, bodies on ground outside of hospital building. MSs, CUs, surviving inmates in courtyard cooking around open fire. Getting water from well. VLSs, camp buildings. VAR shots survivors.
American Newspapermen inspect Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany, May 7, 1945. CU, US newspapermen and party are sprayed with delousing powder.
(LIB 6349) 11th Panzer Division Surrenders, Neumark, Czechoslovakia, May 4, 1945. EXTs, MSs, MCUs, US 90th Div Brig Gen Herbert Earnest in discussion with German Panzer Commanding Gen Wendt Weitersheim. MSs, CUs, German tanks and vehicles move along road to assembly area. (LIB 6340) CU sign: "Neumark." CU, Brig. Gen's star on jeep bumper.
Valuables from Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany, May 6, 1945. INTs (overexposed), US officers inspect currency, gold coins, jewelry and other items taken from cave at Buchenwald concentration camp. - Duration
- 00:10:51
- Date
-
Event:
1945 May 05
- Locale
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Ludwigslust,
Germany
Dachau, Germany
Buchenwald, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: H.R. Thompson
Camera Operator: Thomas
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 04:35:29:00 to 04:46:20:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 4 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 4 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 4 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 4 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 4 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 4 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 4 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 4 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- 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.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the collection from various sources in 1988. Footage was obtained as research for the United States Holocaust Memorial Campaign's promotional video called "A Campaign to Remember" by David Haspel & Associates.
- Note
- The last roll (Sequence titled "Valuables from Buchenwald") is extremely underexposed and is not suitable for reproduction.
Duplicate footage on Film ID 5, Story 34. - Copied From
- 35mm b/w print
- Film Source
- David Haspel & Associates
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1158
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4360 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:48:20
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