Overview
- Description
- High pan of camp, barracks, open square. Survivors getting water from tank/truck, washing in canal, eating, cooking, pots, some are prisoners of war. Men eating. Fighting over food. Celebrating liberation. Posing for group photograph. "All Polish Greet the Fraternal American Army" on building. Men walking, waving, getting on trucks. Swastika chain link. Familiar faces of liberated men. Man with glasses, smiling, waving. Along road, striking at Germans passersby. Man with cane beating another, smashing windows. Captured Germans. Released women, cross on backs. Women cared for by medics, sick carried on litters, assisted with walking. Familiar faces of survivors in street clothes. Red Cross ambulances. Helping the sick, man laying on the street with hands in prayer. Corpses laying on street, barbed wire, CU. Man on stretcher lifted onto truck. CUs, young men, boys in loose white shorts. Children eating. CUs, survivors. Corpses. US army officer. 00:26:14 Hadamar, interrogation of doctors, poison bottle. CUs, mass graves and bodies. Removing corpses from graves, prepare for autopsy. US officers. Burned corpses at door of barracks. German soldier. Civilians forced to look at gas chamber. Charred remains. Civilians viewing lampshades, skin, deformed heads. Corpses on open truck. Corpses. Carrying/moving bodies, preparing for burial. Priest and jeep. Bodies lined in pit. More corpses. CU, club used for torture. Charred remains. Burned bodies in grotesque positions. Civilians forced to look at bodies. Corpses on open truck. Soldiers standing before pile of bodies. Gas chamber, crematoria. Bones. Charred remains. Survivors. Corpses. Barbed wire. Peasant woman standing at barbed wire, crying, holding hands in prayer. Demonstrating torture techniques for Eisenhower. Visiting Ohrdruf. Corpses. Mass grave, corpses. Cross.
- Duration
- 00:16:36
- Date
-
Event:
1945
- Locale
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Hadamar,
Germany
Buchenwald, Germany
Nordhausen, Germany
Ohrdruf, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Etablissement Cinematographique et Photographique des Armees
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army Pictorial Service.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 00:19:44:00 to 00:36:20:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2617 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2617 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2617 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2617 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large- Preservation
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Établissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense
- Conditions on Use
- For rights clearance to reproduce and use this film, contact ECPAD at eboutique@ecpad.fr
- Copyright Holder
- Établissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- AMBULANCES BARBED WIRE BARRACKS BUCHENWALD BURIALS CHAPLAINS CIVILIANS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) COOKING CORPSES CREMATORIA CROSSES DESTRUCTION DOCTORS EATING EISENHOWER, DWIGHT FOOD GAS CHAMBERS GERMANS GERMANY GRAVES HADAMAR INSTITUTE HUMAN REMAINS HUMAN SKIN INTERVIEWS LAMPSHADES LIBERATION MASS GRAVES MEDICAL CARE NORDHAUSEN OHRDRUF PEASANTS PITS POWS PRISONERS (GERMAN) RED CROSS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) SURVIVORS TORTURE TRUCKS WINDOWS WOMEN WOUNDED
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the archival segments on video from E.C.P.A. Photo Cinema Video des Armees in Paris, France in 1998.
- Note
- For similar Hadamar footage, see also some segments in Story 3678, Film ID 2617A although they appear in a different sequence.
End credit: "Photographed and produced by Army Pictorial Service"
Compare with NARA footage to identify duplicate images. - Film Source
- Établissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3850
Source Archive Number: FT 19 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:54:14
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