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Mengele Factory Workers

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5074 | Film ID: 3887, 3631, 3632, 3633

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    Mengele Factory Workers

    Overview

    Description
    Lanzmann talks to German workers and peasants in the present-day Mengele family factory in Günzburg, Germany. The workers are unresponsive, saying things like, "Auschwitz was part good and part bad." Or that "it's all in the past." Most of them only admit to a vague idea of who Josef Mengele was.

    FILM ID 3887 -- Shoah Sequence Mengele // image + mixage
    Color sequence prepared by the editing team in June 1985 possibly for television distribution following the identification of Mengele's body on June 6, 1985. Opening shots of Karl Mengele street signs and farm equipment with the Mengele name. Interviews with workers bringing up Josef's name. Pull back from the tower to the town square in Günzburg.

    FILM ID 3631 -- Mengele Factory Workers 1 -- prise 1,2 (audio only)
    FILM ID 3632 -- Mengele Factory Workers 2 -- prise 1,2,3,4,5 (audio only)
    FILM ID 3633 -- Mengele Factory Workers 3 (audio only)
    Duration
    00:53:00
    Date
    Event:  July 5, 1979
    Production:  1985
    Locale
    Günzburg, Germany
    Credit
    Created by Claude Lanzmann during the filming of "Shoah," used by permission of USHMM and Yad Vashem
    Contributor
    Director: Claude Lanzmann
    Biography
    Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone de Beauvoir. In 1963 he married French actress Judith Magre. Later, he married Angelika Schrobsdorff, a German-Jewish writer, and then Dominique Petithory in 1995. He is the father of Angélique Lanzmann, born in 1950, and Félix Lanzmann (1993-2017). Lanzmann's most renowned work, Shoah, is widely regarded as the seminal film on the subject of the Holocaust. He began interviewing survivors, historians, witnesses, and perpetrators in 1973 and finished editing the film in 1985. In 2009, Lanzmann published his memoirs under the title "Le lièvre de Patagonie" (The Patagonian Hare). He was chief editor of the journal "Les Temps Modernes," which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, until his death on July 5, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/claude-lanzmann-changed-the-history-of-filmmaking-with-shoah

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Genre/Form
    Outtakes.
    B&W / Color
    Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Excellent
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3631 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3631 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3631 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3631 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3632 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3632 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3632 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3632 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3633 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3633 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3633 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3633 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3887 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - sound - acetate - workprint
      Master 3887 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - sound - polyester
      Master 3887 Film: positive - 16 mm - color - print - A-wind
      Master 3887 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - sound - acetate - workprint
      Master 3887 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - sound - polyester
      Master 3887 Film: positive - 16 mm - color - print - A-wind
      Master 3887 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - sound - acetate - workprint
      Master 3887 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - sound - polyester
      Master 3887 Film: positive - 16 mm - color - print - A-wind
      Master 3887 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - sound - acetate - workprint
      Master 3887 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - sound - polyester
      Master 3887 Film: positive - 16 mm - color - print - A-wind

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, State of Israel
    Conditions on Use
    Third party must sign the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's SHOAH Outtakes Film License Agreement in order to reproduce and use film footage. Contact filmvideo@ushmm.org

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the Shoah outtakes from Claude Lanzmann on October 11, 1996. The Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection is now jointly owned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.
    Note
    Claude Lanzmann spent twelve years locating survivors, perpetrators, and eyewitnesses for his nine and a half hour film Shoah released in 1985. Without archival footage, Shoah weaves together extraordinary testimonies to render the step-by-step machinery of the destruction of European Jewry. Critics have called it "a masterpiece" and a "monument against forgetting." The Claude Lanzmann SHOAH Collection consists of roughly 185 hours of interview outtakes and 35 hours of location filming.

    Paper label on Film ID 3887 reads - 'Shoah' Sequence Mengele couleur 16mm LTC le 17/Juin/1985. This looks like a sequence had been edited together and printed to a color positive print with a polyester sound mix possibly for a double system screening. http://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/12/world/body-is-mengele-s-his-son-declares.html
    Film Source
    Claude Lanzmann
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 6008
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:50:45
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