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Liberation of Nordhausen; Red Cross; V2 rockets

Film | Digitized | RG Number: RG-60.2696 | Film ID: 962

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    Liberation of Nordhausen; Red Cross; V2 rockets
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    Description
    Shot of stretchers containing emaciated corpses, name "Orlich" and number written on body. Stevens and Moffat talking through window to inmate in striped coat. Inmates in striped coats talking to Stevens and others. Panning shot of camp buildings - Dora in Nordhausen. Bare trees in BG. VS of camp. Small sign reads: "Holzverwertung." Inmate in striped uniform with red cross walks past sign. CU of ambulances and Red Cross tent. Series of Red Cross tents at side of an airfield by ambulances (LoC cataloger's handwritten annotations indicate that this footage is not from Nordhausen, but from another site, and that the prisoner is a French POW). LS, pan of what seems to be a concentration camp in the distance. Shot of unidentified troops in truck, intercut with shots of the camera crew (notes indicate that footage is of Nordhausen again). Shot of jeeps coming from under some kind of camouflage that was built into the side of a mountain. Front jeep has two stars on it. Officers in battle jackets dismount. Two-star general gets in jeep, drives off. General and men have red shoulder patches with white insignia. More shots of camp. Inmate dusting off blanket. GIs, cameramen filming. Corpses covered with blankets on stretchers, pan of concentration camp, MP in FG. Inmates sitting outside of cell block in sun. CU, emaciated inmates in civilian clothes and some striped uniforms. Inmate leaving camp. Olive drab military sedan in FG, stretcher bearers carrying victims past "Holzverwertung" sign. Loaves of bread being carried on stretcher. Elderly bandaged inmate carrying bucket. Sign reads: "Gefahren Zone!" with skull and crossbones. Large metal containers which appear to be connected to gas chambers. Large tubular objects with screens at one end, possibly gas canisters. Pile of tubular objects in CU. Possibly rockets.

    NOTE: Stevens talked of going to a place where V2s (rocket engines/jet engines) were produced in the Hartz Mountains. These objects are not officially identified. This is followed by a sequence of underexposed shots that are also unidentifiable.
    Duration
    00:06:31
    Date
    Event:  1945 April 15
    Production:  1945
    Locale
    Nordhausen, Germany
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Library of Congress
    Contributor
    Director: George C. Stevens
    Producer: Special Coverage Unit (SPECOU)
    Camera Operator: George C. Stevens
    Biography
    George Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. During World War II, Stevens joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946 under General Eisenhower. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day — including the only Allied European Front color film of the war — the liberation of Paris and the meeting of American and Soviet forces at the Elbe River, as well as horrific scenes from the Duben labor camp and the Dachau concentration camp. Stevens also helped prepare the Duben and Dachau footage and other material for presentation during the Nuremberg Trials. In 2008, his footage was entered into the U.S. National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress as an "essential visual record" of World War II.
    The Special Coverage Unit (SPECOU) was placed under the control of the Supreme Headquarters' Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). The SPECOU consists of 45 people: writers like Ivan Moffat, William Saroyan and Irwin Shaw; cameramen like Dick Hoar, Ken Marthey, William Mellor, Jack Muth; sound operators as Bill Hamilton, who comes from Columbia, assistant directors, as Holly Morse, who has worked with Hal Roach.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Color
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    00:10:41:24 to 00:17:13:22
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 962 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
      Master 962 Digital: ProRes HD HQ 422 - color - HD
      Master 962 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
      Master 962 Digital: ProRes HD HQ 422 - color - HD
      Master 962 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
      Master 962 Digital: ProRes HD HQ 422 - color - HD
      Master 962 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
      Master 962 Digital: ProRes HD HQ 422 - color - HD
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 962 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
      Preservation 962 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
      Preservation 962 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
      Preservation 962 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    George Stevens Jr.
    Conditions on Use
    George Stevens, Jr. owns the copyright to this film. Researchers must contact the Library of Congress at mpref@loc.gov for permission to reproduce and use this film material.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased film copies of the George Stevens Collection on videotape from the Library of Congress in October 1994.
    Copied From
    16mm color reversal film
    Film Source
    Library of Congress - Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS)
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 3004
    Source Archive Number: Video Reel #4; Film Reel #14
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:59:01
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