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Landsberg Hangings

Film | Accession Number: 2001.358.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2969 | Film ID: 2379

Duration: 08:09:32
Event Date: 1946 May 28
Locale: Landsberg, Germany
Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
Credit: Accessed at US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration

Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 21:39:15:00 to 29:48:47:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2379 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 2379 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
Keyword: CIVILIANS
COFFINS
EXECUTIONS
GALLOWS
GERMANS
GERMANY
HANGINGS
LANDSBERG
SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 2001.
Note: Captain Felix Freeman (Friedheim) oversaw the hangings at Landsberg in May 1946 and can be seen clearly in this film footage. He had previously been a political prisoner at Lichtenberg, Ravensbruck, and Dachau, where the SS doctor Fritz Hintermeyer refused to treat him. Dr. Hintermeyer was one of the men he hung in 1946. Capt. Freeman described his experiences during World War II in the attached autobiographical essay.
Copied From: 35mm DNS; b/w
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3150
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5983
Copyright: No restrictions on use. Public Domain
: Record last modified: 2018-11-27 11:00:35
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