Overview
- Description
- Inquests are held at Hadamar with Dr. Wahlmann and Karl Muller (male nurse, morphine). At Meppene, soldiers delousing liberated Russian POWs. Amputees walk by. Prisoners search garbage cans for food. Crowd of disabled prisoners walk by camera in group. Survivors lying down outside, boy passes by in cart/wheelchair. Various shots of wounded/disabled prisoners eating soup, sleeping. Stretcher goes by with naked corpses. CUs, corpses. Three stretchers carried by four men at shoulder height pass in front of barbed wire fence. In Paderborn, Russian soldier argues with person off camera. Liberated prisoners raiding food stores at camp, breaking windows, crowds grabbing for food, survivors eating desperately. In Munster, LS, buildings (brick and warehouses). Man washing feet. Liberated French POWs crouched around pots/fires, eating, CUs. Water distributed from tank on wheels. "Demonstration of Gestapo Methods" Barracks, coffins, torture demonstrations at Breendonck.
- Film Title
-
Atrocities
- Duration
- 00:08:24
- Date
-
Event:
1944-1945
Production: 1945
- Locale
-
Hadamar,
Germany
Meppen, Germany
Paderborn, Germany
Muenster, Germany
Breendonck, Belgium
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 02:11:02:00 to 02:19:26:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 856 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 856 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 856 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 856 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 856 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 856 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 856 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 856 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
- Keyword
- ATROCITIES BARBED WIRE BELGIUM CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CORPSES DOCTORS FOOD GERMANY HADAMAR INSTITUTE INTERVIEWS LIBERATION MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES POWS (FRENCH) POWS (SOVIET) PRISONERS SOLDIERS/MILITARY SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET) SURVIVORS TORTURE WAHLMANN, ADOLF
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
- Refer to SSFVA files for a source list of the miscellaneous film "Atrocities" cataloged at NARA as 111 M 1190. Sources include March of Time, News of the Day, Signal Corps, MGM, Fox Movietone News, American Newsreel Pool, Universal Newsreel, and others.
- Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1921
Source Archive Number: 111 M 1190 R4 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:51:05
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