SS Sonderlager Hinzert in 1946
Overview
- Description
- Collection du Film Scolaire no. 204 SS Sonderlager Hinsert
Sign: "SS-Sonderlager-Hinzert." LS camp, barbed wire, snowy grounds, destroyed camp buildings, debris. Some dark shots and interior shots of graffiti on walls. Gravesite 164 in forest, pan. 00:02:58 Cart with corpses. Int, barracks with bodies. - Duration
- 00:03:36
- Date
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Event:
March 1946
- Locale
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Rhineland,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Centre national de l'audiovisuel
Physical Details
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- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
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- Centre national de l'audiovisuel
- Conditions on Use
- Contact Centre national de l'audiovisuel at info@cna.public.lu for permission to reproduce and use this audiovisual material.
- Copyright Holder
- Centre national de l'audiovisuel
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- In process
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received digital copies of films about Hinzert camp in 2017.
- Note
- The Hinzert camp (about thirty kilometers south-east of Trier) was initially made up of barracks where, from 1938, workers who were working on the motorway network and 'Westwall' lived. This camp burned on August 16, 1939 and was replaced by a new camp which served as an education camp for the workers who had been noted for insubordination. After the invasion of Benelux and France, Hinzert was integrated into the administration of the concentration camps. The prisoners were still recalcitrant workers, but from 1941 political prisoners came to join them. As a general rule, for many prisoners, Hinzert was the first step before being sent to other camps such as Natzweiler, Dachau, and Buchenwald. Few prisoners were released from Hinzert. The prisoners came mainly from Luxembourg, France, Belgium, Poland, the Netherlands. More than 70 Soviet prisoners of war were murdered at Hinzert, as well as Jews and Gypsies. Many of Hinzert's prisoners were sent to factories to work as slaves. Between 1600 and 1800 Luxembourgers passed by Hinzert; 82 died, including 20 shot in September 1942 following the strike and 23 on February 25, 1944 as leaders of the Luxembourg Resistance. The Nazis abandoned the camp on March 3, 1945, taking the prisoners to the interior of Germany.
- Film Source
- Centre national de l'audiovisuel
- File Number
- Source Archive Number: AV032559
- Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:05:32
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