Atrocities, Seeshaupt, Germany

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0928 | Film ID: 905

Overview

Description: Atrocities, Seeshaupt, Germany. EXT, LS, pile of decomposed bodies. LS, German civilians opening mass grave. CU, partially exhumed body. MS, German civilians removing a body from a mass grave. LS, pile of decomposed bodies. CU, several decomposed bodies. MS, pile of bodies. CU, decomposed bodies. CU, decomposed face of a slave laborer (dead). MS, German civilians carrying a body on a stretcher. LS, pile of decomposed bodies. EXT, crowd of German civilians, building in BG. LS, crowd of German civilians, American soldiers in FG. MS, German civilians unloading bodies from a truck, others looking on. MS, Chaplain conducting religious services, German civilians and American soldiers in BG. CU, old woman's face. DS, German civilians, American officers and soldiers looking at the bodies of slave laborers. MS, German civilians searching bodies for identification. CU, Head and shoulders of a decomposed body. MS, German civilians getting into the back of a truck. LS, German civilians opening a mass grave. American soldiers looking on, building in BG. LS, German civilians opening a mass grave. DS, German civilians clearing the earth from around the bodies of victims of German concentraion camp.
Duration: 00:08:08
Date: Event: 1945 May
Locale: Seeshaupt, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: US Air Force
Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 01:01:21:00 to 01:09:29:00
Film Format: Master
Master 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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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: CIVILIANS CORPSES GERMANS GERMANY HUMAN REMAINS LABOR CAMPS MASS GRAVES MILITARY OFFICERS PRISONERS 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.
Note: Various 111 ADC reels shot by US Army Signal Corps are combined here, including slates LIB 5943, LIB 6104, LIB 6105, LIB 6109, LIB 6110, LIB 6161, LIB 6185, LIB 6200.
Copied From: 35mm
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 1378
Source Archive Number: 342 USAF 13039
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive