Overview
- Description
- Liberation of Buchenwald, the Nazi concentration camp in Germany. MCUs, Trucks lined up outside of camp, French prisoners getting out and standing beside trucks, waiting to go home; trucks leaving camp with prisoners waving and signing. HASs prisoners walking around camp and courtyard. MCUs, MSs, pile of corpses, funeral wreaths of pine and ribbon hanging on each side of window. MLS, MS, flags erected by Czechoslovakian prisoners; memorial made by prisoners and erected in memory of the 51,000 dead from the KLB (Konzentrations Lager Buchenwald). MCUs, prisoner behind barbed wire sleeping on ground; cooking, sitting in the sun. CUs, Czechoslovakian orphan boy pumping up bicycle tire; boy with head bandages washing shirt. MLSs, damaged Siemens factory, bombed by the 8th AAF, 24 August 1944; watch tower in camp. MSs, crowds line up at the camp, ex-Nazi soldier with allied Military Government Police armband, directs crowds.
- Duration
- 00:06:21
- Date
-
Event:
1945 April 25
- Locale
-
Buchenwald,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army Air Forces. Combat Camera Unit, 3rd.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:21:54:00 to 01:28:15:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2264 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2264 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2264 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2264 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2264 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2264 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2264 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2264 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 July 2000.
- Note
- AAFCFS caption sheet available at NARA.
- Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3309
Source Archive Number: 18 CS 3855 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:43:45
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