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Political prisoners' concentration camp

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2007 | Film ID: 837

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    Political prisoners' concentration camp

    Overview

    Description
    Political Prisoners' Concentration Camp, Langenstein, Germany, April 18, 1945. MSs, sick prisoners are removed on litters from barracks and placed in ambulance. MSs, CUs, unburied bodies of the dead lie in an open pit. MSs, Maj Gen Raymond S. McLain, CG of the XIX Corps, looking into the pit. VS, group of US officers and Gen McLain inspect camp. MS, Pan, deceased prisoners lying in open pit. MSs, several thin, starved-looking prisoners talk to US officer and a doctor. VS, sick prisoners on litters are carried from ambulances to the 20th Field Hospital tents in Halberstadt. CUs, medical officer, wearing mask over his mouth, washes the emaciated body of a prisoner. MSs, prisoners' uniforms and personal effects are burned near tent.
    NOTE: At this Nazi concentration camp near Langenstein in the Harz Mountains, 6,400 political prisoners of French, Polish, and Russian extraction were held and forced to labor in the construction of a vast underground factory project. During the ten months in which the prisoners lived in this camp, 1,700 persons died of disease and starvation. After its occupation by Task Force CCB of the 8th Armored Division on April 13, 1945, the prisoners continued to die at the rate of 25 per day.
    Duration
    00:10:26
    Date
    Event:  1945 April 18
    Locale
    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
    Good
    Time Code
    03:09:17:00 to 03:19:43:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 837 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 837 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 837 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 837 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 837 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 837 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 837 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 837 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
    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.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 1406
    Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4221
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:50:01
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