Overview
- Description
- Film evidence of Nazi Atrocities: Various Concentration Camps, April 1945
CUs, mutilated mangled bodies lying on ground. German civilians cart them on litters to common burial grounds, under the direction of US military police. MS, charred human torso is placed on litter. MS, Catholic chaplain conducts rites for dead at altar set up on hood of jeep. LS, American soldiers looking down into open burial pit filled with bodies. LS, CUs, charred bodies of the victims. LS, MSs, corpses in grotesque positions lying inside barbed wire enclosure. MS, CUs, cadavers stacked on trucks. INTs, crematories. CU, oven door open showing bones of human skeleton. MLS, mangled and mutilated bodies stacked on floor. HAS, burned buildings in concentration camp with bodies lying in wreckage. CUs, partially burned bodies entangled in electrified barbed wire fence. CUs, partially burned bodies in a shed and barracks. MCUs, Russian women crying near barbed wire fence. LS, MSs, US Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, George S. Patton and Walton H. Walker inspect the camp and view the dead bodies strewn on the ground. Inmates demonstrate how they were tortured by the Nazis. - Duration
- 00:07:10
- Date
-
Event:
1945 April
- Locale
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Ohrdruf,
Germany
Gardelegen, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
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Camera Operator:
United States. Army Pictorial Service.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:00:00:00 to 01:07:10:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2797 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2797 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2797 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2797 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 2797 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2797 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2797 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2797 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from the National Archives and Records Administration in November 2004.
- Copied From
- DBVT
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4613
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 10004 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:45:21
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