Overview
- Description
- Intertitle: "Buchenwald" Human remains in crematoria at Buchenwald. Pile of bones. Survivors and GIs gathered around corpses in courtyard at Buchenwald camp. More shots of the dead, and CUs of the barely living. Doctors inspecting wounds. Intertitle: "Arrogant German citizens are forced to make a tour." German civilians, mostly women, filing into the camp. Intertitle: "Lampshades and pictures made of human skin." MSs, table in the courtyard displaying lampshades, tattoos, shrunken heads. Various shots of the German civilians gathered around the display. Intertitle: "A German officer is forced to enter a shed stacked high with victims." MPs escort German officer into brick building. CUs as Germans exit the shed. Intertitle: "What you have just seen are actual scenes showing man's inhumanity to man." "The End"
- Film Title
-
Nazi Death Camps (The Crime of the Century)
- Film Collection Title
- Michael Ritz Collection
- Duration
- 00:03:01
- Date
-
Event:
1945 April
- Locale
-
Buchenwald,
Germany
- Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Michael Ritz
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:00:04:00 to 01:03:05:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2868 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - reversal print
Master 2868 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2868 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - reversal print
Master 2868 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2868 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - reversal print
Master 2868 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2868 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - reversal print
Master 2868 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 2868 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2868 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2868 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2868 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
- Michael Ritz donated his father's 8mm film to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2009.
- Note
- The film was donated with it's original cardboard container, which is typical of 8mm movies in mass distribution. The title "Nazi Death Camps" is imprinted on the spine.
- Film Source
- Michael Ritz
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5127
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:48:30
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