Overview
- Description
- (LIB 6223) Slave Labor Camp, Flossenbruck [Flossenbuerg], Germany, April 30, 1945. Snow on ground in Cheb? MS, CU, banner on picket fence "Prisoners Happy End! Welcome!" CU sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" on concrete plaque by gate. CU, "Vorsicht Hochspannung Lebensgefahr." CU electrified barbed wire, guard towers, steel gates. Civilians standing outside. Horse-drawn cart with covered coffin and civilians moving through the gate. In Flossenburg, CU, four naked male survivors: two Jewish, one French, one Polish, with numbers tatooed on their chests. Pan down to feet (2 have pants pulled down). CU survivor's emaciated backside. Seq: Former French prisoner in the camp conducts soldier through underground crematorium (through grate). MSs, prisoners working in crematorium carry out bones and ashes from furnace and dump them in nearby pit. CU "Disinfektion" painted on brick wall. Survivors (in regular clothes) splitting and stacking wood. LS, pan, barracks in large concentration camp, on hillside. Seq: Brig Gen Milton B Halsey of the 97th Div inspects the camp. Several MPs walking through gate and around camp, going underground through grate, exiting with jeeps. Seq: Soldiers and civilians digging up bodies of slave laborers, killed during the death marches, all are clothed. VCU, beaten face, mud, blood. CUs, bodies with bayonet and bullet wounds in head and chest. Digging, pulling more bodies out. Pan, human remains. CU, three older male civilians talk to soldier. More digging and pulling up corpses. CUs, bodies.
- Duration
- 00:11:09
- Date
-
Event:
1945 April 30
- Locale
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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
- Fair
- Time Code
- 05:10:32:00 to 05:21:41:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 831 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 831 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 831 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 831 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 831 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 831 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 831 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 831 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- 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
- Keyword
- ARBEIT MACHT FREI BARBED WIRE BARRACKS CARTS/WAGONS CIVILIANS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CORPSES CREMATORIA EXHUMATIONS FLOSSENBUERG GATES HUMAN REMAINS JEEPS LABOR CAMPS LIBERATION MILITARY OFFICERS MILITARY POLICE SIGNS/POSTERS SNOW SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SURVIVORS TATTOOS WATCH TOWERS
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
- Note
- See also Story 1268, Film ID 2903 for similar and duplicate scenes.
- Copied From
- 35mm print
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 32
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4272 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:48:05
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