Exhumation; Inspection of gas chambers; Lt. Hodges

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2024 | Film ID: 843

Overview

Description: 01:07:44 (B-759) WWII Removal of bodies from graves and placement into caskets. CUs, bodies with hands tied behind backs. Pulling bodies out of graves. Wiping dirt away from bound hands. Foreign (Allied) soldiers and coffins [soft focus]. Prying off gloves from corpse hand with metal implement. Soldiers; graves.

01:09:45 (B-760) WWII INTs of gas chamber used by the Germans in the execution of prisoners. Demonstrating method of securing prisoners in gas chambers. Various CUs, pipes leading into room. Pan, wall surrounding concentration camp. LSs, CUs, Pan, three execution posts. ICU, rosary beads and masks. CUs, Pan, hand prints and scratches dug into cement wall of gas chamber by the victims.

01:14:08 (B-794) Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges in Belgium, September 15, 1944. VS, ext, Lt. Gen. Hodges in Master Tac HQ area. Hodges conducts Lt. Gen. Miles E. Dempsey, ERC 2nd British Army, through the area. CUS, Gens jeep and sedan. VS, Hodges bids farewell to Archbishop Francis J. Spellman.
Duration: 00:09:56
Date: Event: 1944 September 15
Locale: Belgium
Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: Laurence

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 01:07:44:00 to 01:17:40:00
Film Format: Master
Master 843 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 843 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 843 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 843 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation
Preservation 843 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 843 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 843 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 843 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.

Keyword: BELGIUM COFFINS CONCENTRATION CAMPS EXHUMATIONS GAS CHAMBERS GRAVES HUMAN REMAINS MILITARY OFFICERS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ALLIES) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)

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: USHMM replaced the digital video file created from videotape in 2013 with a new 2K scan from 35mm in February 2020. The scans were made by NARA's Motion Picture Preservation laboratory as part of the Horizon 20/20 project: "Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age" - https://www.vhh-project.eu/en/.
Copied From: 35mm print
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 7
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 2336
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive