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Atrocities: Ohrdruf; Nordhausen; Buchenwald

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2248 | Film ID: 858

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    Atrocities: Ohrdruf; Nordhausen; Buchenwald

    Overview

    Description
    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 393, Part 1. Release date, 04/26/1945.
    Scenes of atrocities: (Ed Herlihy commentator) "Helpless prisoners tortured to death by a bestial enemy...Here is the truth!" Freed US POWS at side of road cheering on tanks as they go by. Boy smiles. MCU, POWs get soup from big tureen. CU, in line, medical aid. Group MS. Bandaging a man's back, covering up a bloody calf wound, shoulder/back wound. Soldier in bed helped to sitting position by two nurses, view from behind showing emaciated back. LS, Hadamar cemetery from above; one grave among many being dug. CU and MLS, exhuming bodies, pulling man up by arm, wall in BG. INT Chief physician of Hadamar, Adolf Wahlmann, and Karl Willig, a nurse, being interrogated. View from above, edge of town. Ohrdruf: clothed bodies scattered around. In BG soldier with hands in pockets, turns and walks away. MCU, Eisenhower and others grimacing. MS, (full body) walks past corpses, hands behind back; Patton looks disgusted. Gallows. Torture rack. Eisenhower among group, listening, arms crossed. Bodies heaped on ground. German civilians look. Two shots of bones and bodies burnt. CU, burnt body. Group of soldiers in BG; huge open pit. CU, leg with lime. Nazi officer who does not want to go in to the shed where the bodies are; pushed into the shed to view bodies. Nazi looking serious; "Shaken to the core...changed the name of Germany to Infamy." Civilian puts hand to cheek. Buchenwald: In the square. MS, people wandering. CU, boy with big eyes. Man with disfigured face. Three corpses. Tattooed stomach on two "slave laborers who worked on the B-2 bomber." Crematoria ovens with skeleton inside. Nordhausen: LS, field of corpses. "Violent human beasts" (narration). Man lying in barn on bodies. Woman on stretcher. Crying man looks into the camera; stretchers carried out of rubble. CU, man with big eyes entering ambulance. Men, one at a time, enter ambulance. Civilians with shovels walk past camera. MCU, civilians carrying bodies by limbs, then with bodies laid on posts. Mass pit with row of bodies.
    Film Title
    Nazi Murder Mills
    Duration
    00:06:24
    Date
    Event:  1945 April 26
    Locale
    Ohrdruf, Germany
    Nordhausen, Germany
    Buchenwald, Germany
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
    Contributor
    Producer: Universal News
    Camera Operator: Pathe
    Camera Operator: Delande
    Camera Operator: Hearst Metrotone

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    04:22:40:00 to 04:29:04:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 858 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 858 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 858 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 858 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 858 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 858 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 858 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 858 Video: Betacam SP - 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 1994.
    Copied From
    35mm b/w partial SP DN
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 106
    Source Archive Number: 200 UN 18-393-1
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:51:06
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