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Dachau Concentration Camp

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1991.256.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0119 | Film ID: 152

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    Dachau Concentration Camp

    Overview

    Description
    April 30, 1945 MSs, three prisoners eating; in BG lies a corpse of prisoner. MCU, Jewish women prisoners including a fifteen year old Jewish girl. MCU, Jewish women prisoners speak with male prisoners thru holes cut in fence. LSs, Jewish women peer thru fence holes. CUs, faces of male Jewish prisoners. (Excellent composition) MSs, prisoners mill about camp grounds after release. (Men wear prison garb) HS, LS from guard tower with MG gun in FG, camp grounds, barracks. CUs, extremely emaciated male prisoners. One bares his chest for photographer. Seq: Maj Edward A. Jesser, Jr, US officer and the Prince of Luxembourg walk to center of camp and speak to prisoners. Jesser is with Lux. Military Mission, 12th Army Group. LSs, MSs, bodies heaped upon railroad cars at RR siding. CUs, faces and emmaciated bodies of dead Jewish prisoners. INTs, crematorium, stack of naked bodies. EXTs, huge pile of prison uniforms and other types of clothing removed from dead. CU, railroad car filled with bodies of Jewish victims. MSs, CUs, United Nations flags fly over liberated camp. Included are flags of France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, England and US.

    (LIB 6119) April 27, 1945 CUs, MSs, infantrymen of 45th Div - 157th Regt enter outskirts of Dachau. Soldier fires. CUs, liberated Dachau prisoner with "X" attacks German soldier.
    Duration
    00:08:19
    Date
    Event:  April 27-30, 1945
    Locale
    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: Gerzen

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    01:19:37:00 to 01:27:56:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 152 Video: One Inch - b&w and color - NTSC
      Master 152 Video: One Inch - b&w and color - NTSC
      Master 152 Video: One Inch - b&w and color - NTSC
      Master 152 Video: One Inch - b&w and color - NTSC
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 152 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 152 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 152 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 152 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large

    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 from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1991. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
    Note
    USHMM replaced the digital video file created from videotape in 2013 with a new 2K scan from 35mm in February 2020. The scans were made by NARA's Motion Picture Preservation laboratory as part of the Horizon 20/20 project: "Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age" - https://www.vhh-project.eu/en/.
    Copied From
    35mm print
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 6
    Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 1777
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:06:08
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