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Ludwigslust: graves; corpses; service

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1988.184.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0023 | Film ID: 4

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    Ludwigslust: graves; corpses; service

    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
    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

    Rights & Restrictions

    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.

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    Administrative Notes

    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
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:07:19
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