Overview
- Description
- (LIB 6576) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. LSs, CUs, survivors attending services conducted by American Jewish chaplain. Women and men weeping. Flags, chaplain at podium. CUs, corpses. LS, outdoor church services. MSs, survivors, flags. 02:47:43 LS, MSs Men wrapped in blankets, sitting on flatbed, assisted by liberators. Naked corpse lying in stretcher, EXT. Church service, flags. Cut to piles of corpses. Full screen view, starved, mutilated bodies of former camp inmates. Additional scenes, freight cars loaded with dead bodies. 02:50:00 HSs, long line of German prisoners is marched thru streets in Munich (scratched). Dog in snow. MSs, INTs, oven in crematorium containing bones and ashes.
- Duration
- 00:07:54
- Date
-
Event:
May 2-6, 1945
Production: 1945
- Locale
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Dachau,
Germany
Munich, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: McCarthy
Camera Operator: Henry
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 02:44:16:00 to 02:52:10:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 2 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Conditions on Access
- 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 this collection from the National Archives and Records Administration in November 1990. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
- Copied From
- 35mm MPS; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 57
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4472 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:47:24
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