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War victims; Flossenbuerg liberated; camp survivors and medics; women at Lenzing; burning belongings at 121st Evac Hospital; digging graves

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.479.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1269 | Film ID: 2904

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    War victims; Flossenbuerg liberated; camp survivors and medics; women at Lenzing; burning belongings at 121st Evac Hospital; digging graves

    Overview

    Description
    Removing bodies of victims from wreckage, mattresses, covering bodies with sheet. Pan up, body of victim hanging over wall. Civilians look at ruins and wipe eyes, mountain in far BG. CU American holds battered body of a girl.

    03:00:56 (LIB 6355) May 4, 1945. View of concentration camp buildings. CU, sign, "Zugang zu den Krankenbaracken" with figurines. Barbed wire fence and guardtower surrounding Flossenbuerg slave labor camp. CU, bullet-marked and blood-smeared wall - the scene of executions in the camp. INTs, barracks/living quarters, dead prisoners. Steel grating over open pit, crematorium in pit enclosed by high stone wall. Charred bones of cremated victims of the camp. MS, horse-drawn carriage carrying caskets past concentration camp buildings. (See also RG-60.2012)

    03:02:07 (LIB 6490) American and British military officers walking past concentration camp survivors. Camp and buildings in BG. Medical unit tent. Medic and military officer around fire preparing meals. Small ovens. INTs, medical tent.

    03:03:16 (LIB 6462) Gunskirchen Concentration camp in Austria. Barracks. Survivor crying. CU, emaciated body of camp victims. Pit of bodies in a forest. VAR CUs of corpses. Germans digging graves. Latrine. Improvised tent shelter of camp survivor, she sits on a bench and eats. Group of male survivors.

    03:04:04 (LIB 6433) May 5, 1945. Group of liberated women from Lenzing concentration camp. More good shots of the women. Tattooed concentration camp numbers on arms of women. Women talking with a man and U.S. soldier with a pipe. (See USHMM Photo Archives for more images of Lenzing).

    03:04:35 (LIB 6726) LS, pan of hospital near Linz at an abandoned Nazi airport in Neubau, Austria. CU sign: "121st Evacuation Hospital S.M." The 121st Evacuation Hospital was responsible for the medical treatment of liberated inmates from Mauthausen, and its sub-camps including Gunskirchen. Smoke rises from fire outside building. Group of captured German soldiers carrying cartons from building. Smoke from burning mattress and discarded (infested) clothing. Men (survivors) sitting outdoors with bundled belongings. Crippled survivor walking. Another survivor looks directly into the camera. U.S. hospital tent. Survivors lying on stretchers. INTs, emaciated camp survivors with blankets on shoulders. American medic unloading blankets and mattresses from truck.

    03:06:10 (LIB 6596) Germans digging graves, coffins in FG, crowd of civilians watch. U.S. soldiers hold back the crowd. An angered civilian yells at one German digging. Laying flowers on coffins. U.S. soldier forces a man to jump into a pit to dig further. Women lay flowers on coffins. Burial services for concentration camp dead. CUs, crowd watching, including children and a soldier holding a camera. Lowering coffins and filling grave.
    Duration
    00:07:39
    Date
    Event:  1945 May
    Locale
    Linz, Austria
    Lenzing, Austria
    Germany
    Flossenbuerg, Germany
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
    Contributor
    Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    03:00:00:00 to 03:07:39:00
    Film Format
    • Master
      • Master 2904 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2904 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2904 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2904 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
      • Preservation 2904 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2904 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2904 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2904 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    • User
      • User 2904 Video: DVD
      User 2904 Video: DVD
      User 2904 Video: DVD
      User 2904 Video: DVD

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    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 the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in March 2010.
    Note
    See also Story 2012, Film ID 839 for duplicate scenes of the liberation of Flossenbuerg.

    Lenzing, a sub-camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp, was established in the fall of 1944 near the town of Vocklabruck, Austria, to provide workers for a local paper factory. It held approximately 500 forced laborers, all women. In January 1945 almost 100 female prisoners arrived at Lenzing from the recently evacuated Auschwitz concentration camp. On May 5, 1945 troops of the 80th Infantry division, accompanied by photographers from Combat Unit 123, liberated the camp.

    American medical units arrived on May 9, 1945 and established the 121st Evacuation Hospital to give care to the sick among the 4000 former inmates of a sub-camp of Mauthausen near Linz, Austria. Thanks to their efforts, the death rate dropped from 120 to 25 a week.
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    35mm FGMS
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5457
    Source Archive Number: 342 USAF 12934
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:18:10
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