Overview
- Description
- The 11th US Armored Division's advances through England, France, and Germany. Includes scenes of burning villages, surrendering enemies, tanks in fields.
Black and white: US Army headquarters in England, pan of buildings. Skyline, factory, US soldiers on boat. Woman bicycling on path. LS, from train, Southhampton waterfront, warehouses, Cherbourg harbor, countryside. 01:03:45 Handing cigarettes and candy to women on train. City, shops, traffic in Paris, dark. 01:04:56 Color: In Bestogne, civilians on dirt road, snow, military vehicles in field, postwar destruction, dead animals, makeshift grave. 01:06:38 Prisoners marching on small road. Pan, fields, tanks, town, landscape. 01:08:50 Black and white: Ruins, piles of rubble. 01:11:26 US soldiers in town, tanks, ruins, traveling on road, smoke columns rising in BG. 01:14:09 German soldiers marching in columns along road with US tanks at right, smoke columns. 01:15:29 German civilians surrender in Weiden, Germany, with white flag. Prisoners (Russian?) walking on road. 01:16:23 German soldiers begin walking on road. More scenes taken from roadside, abandoned train. - Duration
- 00:16:25
- Date
-
Event:
November 1944 to April 1945
- Locale
-
Germany
England
France
- Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Robert Zimmer
- Contributor
-
Camera Operator:
Raymond S. Buch
- Biography
-
Sgt. Raymond S. Buch was a member of the 56th Armored Engineer Battalion of the 11th Armored Division of the US Army and was present at the liberation of Mauthausen. His engineering battalion was brought to Mauthausen to bury the dead. Refer to the oral history interview with Mr. Buch recorded in December 1989 (RG-50.030*0045).
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Amateur.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Poor
- Time Code
- 02:19:35:00 to 02:36:00:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2694 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - color - NTSC
Master 2694 Film: 8 mm - color
Master 2694 Film: 8 mm - color
Master 2694 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - color - NTSC
Master 2694 Film: 8 mm - color
Master 2694 Film: 8 mm - color
Master 2694 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - color - NTSC
Master 2694 Film: 8 mm - color
Master 2694 Film: 8 mm - color
Master 2694 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - color - NTSC
Master 2694 Film: 8 mm - color
Master 2694 Film: 8 mm - color- Preservation
Preservation 2694 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2694 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2694 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2694 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large- User
User 2694 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color
User 2694 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color
User 2694 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color
User 2694 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Conditions on Use
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.
- Copyright Holder
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- Robert Zimmer donated these 8mm films and a videotape to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in December 1989 [Accession no. 1991.A.0015]. The video compiles photographs and film clips of the liberation at Mauthausen and is narrated by the cameraman, Ray Buch. In 1989, Ray Buch donated several documents, photographs, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, posters, maps, films, and objects related to the US Army's 11th Armored Division and their liberation of Mauthausen; consequently, the film may also be noted with Accession no. 1989.324.56.
- Note
- 01:00:07-01:17:50
Timecodes starting with 02: refer to the Master and User (VHS) copies. Timecodes starting with 01: refer to the Protection (Beta SP) copy. - Copied From
- 8mm
- Film Source
- Zimmer, COL Robert
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4112
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:04:42
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Personal films of the 11th US Armored Division's advances through England, France, and Germany, including scenes of burning villages, surrendering enemies, tanks in fields and the Division's advances through Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria, including scenes of surrendering enemies and the liberation of Mauthausen.
56th Armored Engineer Battalion arrives at Mauthausen to bury the dead
Film
The 11th US Armored Division advances through Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. Includes scenes of surrendering enemies and the 56th Armored Engineer Battalion at the liberation of Mauthausen. Color: Countryside from moving tank. Liberation of German town: flames, civilians, some waving white flags, church. Views of German civilians from tank as US army passes through, 2 men with armbands carry a Red Cross flag. US soldiers marching along road (dark) and through town. Shots of farm animals and barns on fire. 01:22:26 Group of men - brewery workers - exiting building with arms raised. Women and men forced to haul stones, watched by US Army soldiers. US soldiers on tank, countryside, fires. 01:23:48 Good close shots of German field hospital soldiers, lined up, carrying belongings, marching. Entering village in Czechoslovakia, civilians with white flags. In Austria, LS fields, tanks. Facades of buildings demolished, devastated civilians. 01:27:34 German soldiers running along road with arms raised, US snipers in field, LS of Germans running, fighting. Red Cross truck with 2 stretchers, more civilians surrender. 01:29:47 Black and white: Soft pan of buildings at Mauthausen, barracks, kitchen with 2 chimneys, double electrified fence. Survivors sleeping on cots, emaciated. Closer view of barbed wire. Pile of wooden coffins. US flag, guard tower. Pan, stone wall. HAS, camp buildings and barracks. Rooftops, Danube River in BG. Fast pan around fields. Engineers with the 56th Armored bury bodies in trenches, Austrian civilians shoveling dirt into pit. Pan of graves, bulldozer pushes dirt to fill mass grave. 01:37:24 Emaciated survivors, waiting in food line. INT, good MSs, women on bunks. Stone fence, gates, quarry. 01:39:22 Repeat of previous scene with CUs of women in bunks in slow motion.
