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Survivors and corpses at Buchenwald

Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0859 | Film ID: 833

Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, 1945. LSs, civilians kicking German soldier. MSs, civilians breaking windows in building. Camera (on automobile) traveling through outskirts town, passing people with bags, cart. In town, crowd on sidewalk, looting? store. MS, survivors in square. MSs, CUs, furnace doors being opened in crematorium showing remains of bodies not wholly consumed by fire. Demonstrating oven "tray." Pan, survivor with three ovens/crematoria in BG. Corpses on cart, in truck. CU, "Jedem das Seine" gate closing. Men circled around corpse, taking hats off. MSs, CUs, emaciated men and children prisoners. CU, man with deformed face. Man drinking from large white tin mug. MLS, group seated around fire amid rubble. MS, survivors carrying barrels. MSs, Nazi planes, car going through gate, down street. MS, CU, emaciated bodies with numbers tatooed on their skin.


Duration
00:05:19
Date
Event:  1945
Locale
Buchenwald, Germany
Language
Silent
Genre/Form
Unedited.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 22:02:45
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