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Concentration camp atrocities

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.146.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2597 | Film ID: 1000

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    Concentration camp atrocities

    Overview

    Description
    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950.

    A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans: "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism.] Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include:
    Ohrdruf: Eisenhower visiting the camp; demonstrations of torture; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; corpses; crematoria
    Ziegenheim: liberated men; a typical day's ration of food
    Kaunitz: mass graves; a woman's tattooed arm; wounds
    Holzen: men behind barbed wire; emaciated survivors
    Schwarzenfeld: mass graves; burial of corpses
    Goettingen: maltreatment of POWs; emaciated bodies; food
    Hadamar: interrogation/detention of SS guards and camp officials; exhumation/autopsies

    NOTE: The original use of this material was entitled "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey" or "Atrocities Found in German Camps" (originally classified "restricted").
    Duration
    00:08:46
    Date
    Event:  1945 June 15
    Locale
    Ohrdruf, Germany
    Hadamar, Germany
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Imperial War Museums
    Contributor
    Producer:

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Genre/Form
    Newsreels.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:34:29:00 to 01:43:15:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Imperial War Museums
    Conditions on Use
    For licensing enquiries and requests, contact Imperial War Museums (IWM) at filmcommercial@iwm.org.uk. IWM also offers limited services for non-commercial parties, such as for museums, armed forces, veterans and their immediate family, family history researchers, and students. For such purposes, contact film@iwm.org.uk.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased these liberation segments from the Imperial War Museum in London in February 1995.
    Note
    See Film ID 158 for "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey"
    Copied From
    b/w
    Film Source
    Imperial War Museums
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 2713
    Source Archive Number: WIF 5/1
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:57:00
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