Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0857 | Film ID: 832

Overview

Description: Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, April 17, 1945. LHSs, concentration camp area with internees and visitors walking about. MLS, soldiers entering camp area. MSs, picture of Joseph Stalin on camp building. In FG, arms are raised in Communist salute. Head-on-shot, Red Cross trucks with "Switzerland" on bumpers enter camp grounds. MLS, group of young inmates marching from the camp. Many of them wearing the striped prison uniform. MSs, CUs, two former inmates remove bodies from hand truck, place them upon a pile of bodies near building. CU, Pan, dead bodies in a long pile. ECUs, faces of the dead victims. Various CUs, concentration camp victims sitting and standing near buildings. Most are extremely emaciated. One victim begins to cry. Full-screen-view, young former prisoners standing behind wire fence. CU, Pan, deformed legs of young boys. MS, two former prisoners lying in sun near barbed-wire fence. MLS, Pan, barracks area enclosed by barbed-wire fencing. CU sign: "All Poles Greet the Fraternal American Army". Pan to US and Polish flags. MS, several US soldiers look at pile of dead. MS, Pan, expression of horror on the faces of soldiers looking at the dead.
Duration: 00:06:35
Date: Event: 1945 April 17
Locale: Buchenwald, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 06:12:02:00 to 06:18:37:00
Film Format: Master
Master 832 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 832 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 832 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 832 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation
Preservation 832 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 832 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 832 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 832 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

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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.

Keyword: BARBED WIRE BARRACKS BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CORPSES FLAGS GERMANY HUMAN REMAINS POLES RED CROSS SIGNS/POSTERS STALIN, JOSEPH SURVIVORS TRUCKS

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
Copied From: 35mm; b/w; silent
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 1278
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4199
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive