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Nazi concentration camps

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.712.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4325 | Film ID: 2797

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    Nazi concentration camps

    Overview

    Description
    Film evidence of Nazi Atrocities: Various Concentration Camps, April 1945
    CUs, mutilated mangled bodies lying on ground. German civilians cart them on litters to common burial grounds, under the direction of US military police. MS, charred human torso is placed on litter. MS, Catholic chaplain conducts rites for dead at altar set up on hood of jeep. LS, American soldiers looking down into open burial pit filled with bodies. LS, CUs, charred bodies of the victims. LS, MSs, corpses in grotesque positions lying inside barbed wire enclosure. MS, CUs, cadavers stacked on trucks. INTs, crematories. CU, oven door open showing bones of human skeleton. MLS, mangled and mutilated bodies stacked on floor. HAS, burned buildings in concentration camp with bodies lying in wreckage. CUs, partially burned bodies entangled in electrified barbed wire fence. CUs, partially burned bodies in a shed and barracks. MCUs, Russian women crying near barbed wire fence. LS, MSs, US Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, George S. Patton and Walton H. Walker inspect the camp and view the dead bodies strewn on the ground. Inmates demonstrate how they were tortured by the Nazis.
    Duration
    00:07:10
    Date
    Event:  1945 April
    Locale
    Ohrdruf, Germany
    Gardelegen, Germany
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: United States. Army Pictorial Service.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:00:00:00 to 01:07:10:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2797 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2797 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2797 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2797 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2797 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2797 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2797 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2797 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 footage from the National Archives and Records Administration in November 2004.
    Copied From
    DBVT
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4613
    Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 10004
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:45:21
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