Overview
- Description
- Title: "A Visit to a Camp Near Minsk" Heinrich Himmler visits Minsk and a concentration camp near Minsk. Himmler with group of German officers, including Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Karl Wolff, Otto Bradfisch (Leader of Einsatzkommando 8, Einsatzgruppe B). Minsk streets. Greets small line of uniformed men and salutes people on balcony. His car leaves city. MS Himmler seated in car, Bach-Zelewski far right, gestures to local woman wearing kerchief. Himmler and others including Wolff walk through field of cut wheat, talk to young boy who answers. Himmler looks at front end of Russian farm equipment and walks past houses being built. Car leaves huge compound known as Lenin House that serves as SS/SD headquarters. Drives through Minsk, views of destruction. Outside town, walks into wire enclosed compound, met by German Wehrmacht officers. Walks right along wire on other side of which are many Soviet POWs, talks to one prisoner and inspects camp, accompanied by Bach-Zelewski, Karl Wolff, Otto Bradfisch and others. Last shot includes glimpse of Otto Bradfisch far right.
Himmler's visit is known to have taken place in mid-August 1941, at the same time he observed a mass execution by shooting, carried out by Einsatzkommando 8 on 15 August 41.
(Possibly Drozdy Camp outside Minsk, with a mixed population of prisoners.) - Film Title
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The Nazi Plan
- Duration
- 00:02:26
- Date
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Event:
1941 August 15
- Locale
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Minsk,
Soviet Union
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Director:
E. R. Kellogg
Camera Operator: Walter Frentz
- Biography
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United States Navy Lieutenant E. R. Kellogg certifies motion pictures of Nazi concentration camps in an affidavit presented in the "Nazi Concentration Camps" film by the Americans as evidence during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Kellogg had expertise in motion picture and photographic techniques through his employment with Twentieth Century Fox Studios in California from 1929 to 1941. He attests that he has thoroughly examined the concentration camp liberation films of the Army Signal Corps and found them to be unaltered, genuine, and true copies of the originals in the U.S. Army Signal Corps vaults.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:59:15:00 to 02:01:41:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 231 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 232 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 233 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 231 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 232 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 233 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 231 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 232 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 233 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 231 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 232 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 233 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 233 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 233 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 233 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 233 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- While this film is a production of the US government and is therefore in the public domain, it contains German newsreel footage, the rights to which are held by the German state archive (Bundesarchiv). Researchers should exercise caution when using newsreel clips from this film, and consider clearing copyright with the Bundesarchiv, especially if broadcast in Europe.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in October 1991. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
- Note
- Himmler's most famous visit to Minsk was in mid-August 1941.
See also Story 2463, Film ID 66 for duplicate footage. This footage corresponds to Reel 20.
"The Nazi Plan" was shown as evidence at the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg on December 11, 1945. It was compiled by Budd Schulberg and other military personnel, under the supervision of Navy Commander James Donovan. The compilers took pains to use only German source material, including official newsreels and other German films (1919-45). It was put together for the US Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality and the US Office of the Chief Counsel for War Crimes. The film was received in evidence as IMT exhibit USA-167.
Summary from NARA story card (archive source number 238.1): "On the activities and policies of the National Socialist Party in Germany, 1921-1944, particularly as reflected in the speeches of Adolf Hitler. Shows much of the pagentry associated with the speeches. Consists of four parts: Part I: The rise of the NSDAP, 1921-1933 (reels 1-2); Part II: Acquiring totalitarian control of Germany, 1933-1935 (reels 3-8); Part III: Preparation for wars of aggression, 1935-1939 (reels 9-16); and Part IV: Wars of aggression, 1939-1944 (reels 17-22)." - Copied From
- 35mm
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 619
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 8549 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:53:13
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