Overview
- Description
- (LIB 6572) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. INTs and EXTs, gas execution chamber with sign over door in German: "Brausebad" (Shower Bath). CU, pan to ceiling, gas vents; two holes on wall. ECU, one gas "nozzle." CU, floor; bigger vent (against wall). MS, pan to ceiling pipes. CU, 2 soldiers (one looks mournful, one disgusted). Piles of bodies in room adjoining gas chamber. SLATE: Marthey. MLS, Dachau train station. CU sign on building wall "Dachau." CU, street sign with cut-out, low relief sculptures. US armed entrance/gate to camp; two story barracks in BG. Sign: "Quarantine. Typhus. This concentration camp is off limits to all civil and military personnel. By order of Gen Patch, CG, Seventh Army." CU, Christian altar in camp. CU, Mary and Jesus. CU, cross, altar, plaques. MS, horse drawn wagons removing bodies from camp are led thru streets by German civilians wearing gas masks. Passing train tracks and trains. View from behind, CU corpses. CU, man with gas mask leading horse. Seq: Capt. Rabbi David Max Eichhorn, Jewish chaplain of the US XV Corps, steps from jeep and is greeted by inmates. An inmate hands the chaplain a bouquet of flowers. Full screen view, male inmates attending ceremonies. Several are in tears. MS, crowd from behind, flags. WS, women, crowd. CU, prisoner at podium speaking. Well-dressed men along road; long procession of inmates; carts of skeletons.
- Duration
- 00:08:22
- Date
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Event:
1945 May 03
- Locale
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Dachau,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: Philip Drell
Camera Operator: Marthey
Subject: David M. Eichhorn
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 02:35:45:00 to 02:44:07:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 2 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- 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.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection from the National Archives and Records Administration in November 1990. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
- Note
- Clips of this unedited footage of Dachau were used in the film "Nazi Concentration Camps" which was shown as evidence during the Nuremberg Trial. See Story 840, Film ID 827 or Story 2440, Film ID 2273.
- Copied From
- 35mm MPS b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 54
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4468 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:48:19
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