Concentration camp atrocities

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.146.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2597 | Film ID: 1000

Overview

Description: "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950.

A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans: "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism.] Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include:
Ohrdruf: Eisenhower visiting the camp; demonstrations of torture; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; corpses; crematoria
Ziegenheim: liberated men; a typical day's ration of food
Kaunitz: mass graves; a woman's tattooed arm; wounds
Holzen: men behind barbed wire; emaciated survivors
Schwarzenfeld: mass graves; burial of corpses
Goettingen: maltreatment of POWs; emaciated bodies; food
Hadamar: interrogation/detention of SS guards and camp officials; exhumation/autopsies

NOTE: The original use of this material was entitled "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey" or "Atrocities Found in German Camps" (originally classified "restricted").
Film Title: Welt im Film no. 5 (part 1)
Duration: 00:08:46
Date: Event: 1945 June 15
Locale: Ohrdruf, Germany
Hadamar, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Imperial War Museums
Contributor: Producer:

Language: German
Genre/Form: Newsreels.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 01:34:29:00 to 01:43:15:00
Film Format: Master
Master 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 1000 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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Copyright: Imperial War Museums
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Copyright Holder: Imperial War Museums

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased these liberation segments from the Imperial War Museum in London in February 1995.
Note: See Film ID 158 for "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey"
Copied From: b/w
Film Source: Imperial War Museums
File Number: Legacy Database File: 2713
Source Archive Number: WIF 5/1
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive