Overview
- Description
- Early Morning Patrol (B Co, 3rd Platoon, 406th Regt, 102nd Inf Div), Klotze, Germany, April 20, 1945. MSs, CUs, two soldiers with blackened faces in wooded area. CUs, soldier writes message he receives over walkie-talkie. Patrol moving thru thickly wooded area and across open field. MSs, CUs, patrol members speak to German farmers who are at work in field. Follow shots, farmer leads patrol thru orchard to farmhouse and barn.
1056th Engineers Complete Wesel Bridge, Germany, April 20, 1945. LS, Completed bridge over Rhine River. VS, transports logs to pile driver located in middle of river. CUs, pile driver operator at work. LSs, pile driver in operation.
Suicides at Leipzig, Germany, April 20, 1945. INTs, suicide victims lie in City Hall office building. The victims include the Mayor of Leipzig, his wife and daughter and two German Volksturm officers. CU, vial which contained poison. CUs, two German officers. CU, armband on sleeve of one corpse. VS, Leipzig Rathaus.
(LIB 5866) "Murder Inc" Atrocity, Gardelegen, Germany, April 21, 1945. Seq: Male civilians gather at City Hall where they are given instructions to dig graves for burial of atrocity victims. Full screen view, male civilians carrying shovels are marched to scene of disinterment. VS, male civilians disinter bodies of the victims. MSs, CUs, placing bodies on ground for identification purposes. CU, face of corpse. - Duration
- 00:11:35
- Date
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Event:
1945 April 20
- Locale
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Gardelegen,
Germany
Leipzig, 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: Hawley
Camera Operator: Bush
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 05:01:12:00 to 05:12:47:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 839 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 839 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 839 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 839 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 839 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 839 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 839 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 839 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
- Gardelegen story is related to Story 860, Film ID 833 and Story 122, Film ID 152 (111 ADC 4059 and 111 ADC 4052).
See additional detailed notes in departmental USHMM binders. - Copied From
- 35mm print
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 23
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4051 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:50:23
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