Overview
- Description
- German Atrocities, Ohrdruf, Germany, April 7, 1945. MPs herding civilians of Ohrdruf through shed to view bodies of victims. Germans reluctant to enter shed. Taken to outdoor crematorium. CUs, charred bodies lying in piles in mud. MCUs bodies stacked in shed. Civilians shocked.
4th Division Finds Victims of Atrocity, Ohrdruf, Germany, April 7, 1945. Corpses scattered around camp grounds. MS officer looks into shed and sees piles of dead bodies. Officer speaks to remaining prisoners who hid in woods until Germans left. MS victim of malnutrition. - Duration
- 00:06:25
- Date
-
Event:
1945 April 07
- Locale
-
Houstenbeck,
Germany
Bad Lippspringe, Germany
Ohrdruf, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 02:27:14:00 to 02:33:39:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 153 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 153 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 153 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 153 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 153 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 153 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 153 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 153 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.
Keywords & Subjects
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 1991. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
- Note
- The German officer with a cross on his sleeve at 02:28:55 also appears in Story 2243 on Film ID 867.
- Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2109
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 3834 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:46:55
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