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Hadamar; POWs raid for food; Breendonck torture devices

Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2266 | Film ID: 856

Inquests are held at Hadamar with Dr. Wahlmann and Karl Muller (male nurse, morphine). At Meppene, soldiers delousing liberated Russian POWs. Amputees walk by. Prisoners search garbage cans for food. Crowd of disabled prisoners walk by camera in group. Survivors lying down outside, boy passes by in cart/wheelchair. Various shots of wounded/disabled prisoners eating soup, sleeping. Stretcher goes by with naked corpses. CUs, corpses. Three stretchers carried by four men at shoulder height pass in front of barbed wire fence. In Paderborn, Russian soldier argues with person off camera. Liberated prisoners raiding food stores at camp, breaking windows, crowds grabbing for food, survivors eating desperately. In Munster, LS, buildings (brick and warehouses). Man washing feet. Liberated French POWs crouched around pots/fires, eating, CUs. Water distributed from tank on wheels. "Demonstration of Gestapo Methods" Barracks, coffins, torture demonstrations at Breendonck.


Film Title
Atrocities
Duration
00:08:24
Date
Event:  1944-1945
Production:  1945
Locale
Hadamar, Germany
Meppen, Germany
Paderborn, Germany
Muenster, Germany
Breendonck, Belgium
Language
English
Genre/Form
Unedited.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 22:04:02
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