Overview
- Description
- (LIB 6389) Remnants of Nazism, Ludwigslust, Germany, 7 May 1945. MCUs, townspeople walking past pits containing bodies of former slave laborers/prisoners who died from malnutrition and torture. VS, German civilians digging graves and reburying concentration camp victims. MCUs, MSs, Maj Gen James M Gavin, 82nd ABN Corps and other US officers attending burial ceremonies. CUs, Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish chaplains speaking at ceremony. CUs, Gavin and other US soldiers. Burying victims. MSs, body lying in grave as earth is shoveled over it. Germans burying victims, grave markers. More shots of civilians walking past pits, some women crying. Germans in uniform forced to pass graves. Townspeople burying bodies. MSs, grave markers, some with the Star of David. More shots of burying bodies, coffins. CUs, faces of the dead reflecting the violent deaths suffered. 05:03:01 - 05:03:29 Troops riding through liberated village, soldier playing accordion, black screen. MSs, civilians digging graves and reburying victims. Military officers supervise burial, talking, laughing. CUs, female survivor wearing uniform and coat marked with an "X" on the back crying, watching German civilians remove bodies from mass grave. MSs, CUs, MCUs, several freed prisoners also watching Germans. CUs, exhumation of bodies. Crosses are painted by German civilians. Various CUs, removing bodies.
Note: The victims were from Woebbelin concentration camp. The camp housed political prisoners of all nations. - Duration
- 00:10:30
- Date
-
Event:
1945 May 07
- Locale
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Ludwigslust,
Germany
Woebbelin, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: Sydney
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 04:46:23:00 to 04:56:53:00
- 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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- 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
- Keyword
- BURIALS CEREMONIES CIVILIANS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CORPSES EXHUMATIONS FORCED CONFRONTATION GERMANS GERMANY GRAVES LIBERATION LUDWIGSLUST MASS GRAVES MILITARY OFFICERS PITS PRISONERS RELIGIOUS SERVICES SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SURVIVORS USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION) WOEBBELIN
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
- See also Story 35, Film ID 5 for duplicate (although shorter) footage.
USHMM replaced the online streaming video with a file from NARA (digitized Digital Betacam tape) in August 2019. - Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- David Haspel & Associates
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1229
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4411 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:07:19
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