Overview
- Description
- 07:12:43-07:16:04 Atrocities at Ohrdruf, Germany. MS of civilians, and captured Nazi officials get off truck. CU German officer with a Red Cross armband on his sleeve near jeep. Pan shot of same officer joining other German civilians and officials outside slave labor camp. LS Germans tour camp, looking at bodies of dead inmates lying on ground. Germans listen as American officer reads atrocity story to them. CU officer reading. Closer shots of dead bodies. German official shakes head. American officer urges them enter shed containing other bodies. German officer with cross armband tries to refuse and is pushed in. Germans going in. Dead bodies in piles on floor of shed. Germans leave shed, some holding handkerchiefs to their noses and mouths, another clamping his hands and shaking his head in disbelief. German and American soldiers in yard ouside shed.
07:16:04-07:18:59 Dachau, Germany, Trial. American army officer testifies at trial of Nazi soldier accused of murdering American soldiers at the Battle of the Buldge. Two close shots of Nazi soldiers wearing numbers in the prisoner box. American testifying; German translator, sitting next to him, translates speech for German prisoners. American soldier rises from witness chair, walks to prisoner box, identifies Nazi who committed the shooting. - Film Title
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Signal Corps #4
- Duration
- 00:06:16
- Date
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Event:
1950 April
- Locale
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Ohrdruf,
Germany
Dachau, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
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Producer:
March of Time, Inc.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 07:12:43:00 to 07:18:59:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 867 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 867 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 867 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 867 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 867 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 867 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 867 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 867 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
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
- The German officer with a cross on his sleeve appears in Story 128 on Film ID 153.
See also Story 2770, Film ID 2335 for duplicate footage that was obtained from NARA as Signal Corps material: 111 ADC 3832. - Copied From
- duplicate negative
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1870
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 1425 Z - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:47:26
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