Overview
- Description
- MS, CUs four P-47s in flight. P-47s buzz countryside, pull up at airfield, in flight again. CU mechanic works on P-47 engine. MCU crew chief in cockpit of P-47. Crew chief uses air hose to clean engine. 10:06:25 Very dark shot with light inside an oven in Dachau crematory. CU tattooed prison number of Dachau inmate. CU man's sleeve is pulled up to show number tattooed on arm. CU painting of men hanging from arms as Nazi officials look on. CU painting showing forms of torture in Dachau. CU address and signature of artist. MS of Feldturnhalle in Munich with white lettering on side of building reading "Concentration Camp Dachau-Belsen-Buchenwald. I am ashamed that I am a German." (transl. of German) MS Nazi eagle and swastika. Bomb damage in building. MS bomb damage in vicinity of Munich square. MS Hitler's original brown house in ruins. MS sign and Nazi plaque on Feldturnhalle (plaque commemorates sixteen Nazi party members shot in 1923). MS bridge and buildings in Munich. MS bomb damage in Munich, including the Church of the Two Towers. CU crew chief paints insignia on side of P-47, "My Reverie." 10:11:48 MS as vast throng of airfield personnel pass camera, parked P-47s in FG and BG. 10:15:55 CUs, officer posing at airbase. 10:16:38 Aerial pan to Rhine River and destroyed bridge on Rhine. Shot of German prisoners dug into ground. Aerial view of Rhine River.
- Duration
- 00:18:12
- Date
-
Event:
1945 May
- Locale
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Dachau,
Germany
Munich, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army Air Forces.
Camera Operator: Davolt
Camera Operator: C E. Nerpel
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 10:01:13:00 to 10:19:25:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 852 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Master 852 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Master 852 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Master 852 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 852 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Preservation 852 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Preservation 852 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Preservation 852 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
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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
- AIR FORCE (U.S.) AIRPLANES AIRPORTS BOMBINGS BRIDGES BUILDINGS CHURCHES CONCENTRATION CAMPS CREMATORIA DACHAU DESTRUCTION GERMANS GERMANY HITLER, ADOLF MILITARY VEHICLES NAZI PARTY PAINTINGS PRISONERS (GERMAN) RHINE RIVER RIVERS RUINS SIGNS/POSTERS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SURVIVORS SWASTIKAS TATTOOS TORTURE
Administrative Notes
- 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
- USHMM replaced the online streaming video with a new, higher resolution digital file produced for the VHH project. The 16mm film source from NARA was scanned by the Austrian Filmmuseum in 2021.
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1848
Source Archive Number: 18 SFP 9188 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:06:17
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