Overview
- Description
- 00:57:57 (LIB 5416) General Dwight D Eisenhower Visits Atrocities Concentration Camp at Ohrdruf, Germany, April 12, 1945. MS, inmates of camp demonstrate for Gen. Eisenhower the methods of torture used by the Nazis. MSs, CUs, Eisenhower looks at dead bodies of prisoners, GIs standing in BG. Former prisoner (survivor) with scarf talking to officers. CUs, corpses. Mass of US soldiers gather for Eisenhower's departure, barracks in background. Various shots of Gens Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. leaving camp in jeeps. Crowd of soldiers disperse. MSs, US soldiers look at dead bodies of camp victims, CUs of soldiers.
01:00:05 (LIB 5562) Liberated Yanks, Russians, and British, Duderstadt, Germany, April 10, 1945. CUs small radio built by one of the prisoners. CU, one of the liberated men cooks chickens and rabbits in a pot. Liberated US, Russian and British prisoners at camp. (Most of the prisoners are British.) MSs, CU, liberated men cook over small open stoves. Men using the handmade radio. - Duration
- 00:04:23
- Date
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Event:
April 10-12, 1945
- Locale
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Ohrdruf,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
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Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: R.H. Butterfield
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 00:57:57:27 to 01:02:21:18
- Film Format
- Master
Master 6 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 6 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 6 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 6 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 6 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 6 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 6 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 6 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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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
- BARRACKS BRADLEY, OMAR N. CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) COOKING CORPSES CROWDS EISENHOWER, DWIGHT FIRES FOOD GERMANY JEEPS LIBERATION MILITARY OFFICERS OHRDRUF PATTON, GEORGE POWS POWS (AMERICAN) POWS (BRITISH) POWS (SOVIET) PRISONERS RADIOS SOLDIERS/MILITARY SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SURVIVORS TORTURE
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the collection from various sources in 1988. Footage was obtained as research for the United States Holocaust Memorial Campaign's promotional video called "A Campaign to Remember" by David Haspel & Associates.
- Note
- See Story 31, Film ID 5 for a shorter excerpt from 111 ADC 3975.
- Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- David Haspel & Associates
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2067
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 3975 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:46:55
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