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"). - Film Title
-
Welt im Film no. 5 (part 1)
- 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.
- Copyright Holder
- Imperial War Museums
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- 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 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:57:00
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