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:
Arnstadt: tents in camp; corpses
Belsen: survivors; corpses; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; Josef Kramer; interrogation/detention of SS guards and camp officials
Gardelegen: corpses; interview
Leipzig: rubble; corpses/ash/burned bodies; peasants at barbed wire fence viewing atrocities
Nordhausen: corpses; tending to the sick; ambulances; burials with a chaplain
Buchenwald: visit of British MPs and US congressmen; survivors (boys); film of corpses, crematoria, bones; map of Germany
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 2)
- Duration
- 00:11:05
- Date
-
Event:
1945 June 15
- Locale
-
Arnstadt,
Germany
Bergen-Belsen, Germany
Gardelegen, Germany
Leipzig, Germany
Nordhausen, Germany
Buchenwald, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Imperial War Museums
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:43:23:00 to 01:54:28:00
- 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
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Imperial War Museums
- Conditions on Use
- For licensing enquiries and requests, contact Imperial War Museums (IWM) at filmcommercial@iwm.org.uk. IWM also offers limited services for non-commercial parties, such as for museums, armed forces, veterans and their immediate family, family history researchers, and students. For such purposes, contact film@iwm.org.uk.
- Copyright Holder
- Imperial War Museums
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- AMBULANCES ATROCITIES BARBED WIRE BERGEN-BELSEN BURIALS CHAPLAINS CHILDREN CIVILIANS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CORPSES CREMATORIA DISEASES FORCED CONFRONTATION GARDELEGEN GERMANS GERMANY HUMAN REMAINS INTERVIEWS KRAMER, JOSEF LIBERATION MAPS NAZI OFFICIALS NORDHAUSEN PEASANTS RUBBLE RUINS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH) SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL) TENTS
Administrative Notes
- 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: 2714
Source Archive Number: WIF 5/2 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:57:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1002090
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