United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000786
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• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

"Breendonck" Views of Breendonck camp in Belgium. EXTs of prison used to house Belgian patriots. Blood-stained coffins are exhibited as evidence of brutality Inmates demonstrate the methods used against the prisoners, such as beatings with barbed wire poles, chaining them into a vise, thumb screws. Victims reveal results of beatings and cigarette burns; a woman also reveals scars on her hips. "Hanover Concentration Camp" General views of the camp where only 200 remained of 10,000 Poles. INTs of the camp, few remaining inmates mill about. VS, Red Cross clubmobiles enter, issue hot soup, ciga...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000787
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Remnants of Nazism, Ludwigslust, Germany, May 6, 1945. MCU, German civilians coming out of concentration camp building after viewing bodies of victims. Woman is very distraught, crying into kerchief. More civilians leaving building. LS, square. LS, MS, CU American soldiers entering and leaving same building. Digging Graves, Ludwigslust, Germany, May 6, 1945. LSs, MSs, CUs, German civilians digging graves for the concentration camp victims. MSs, CUs, German civilians walking past graves, viewing the bodies. American/Army flags. VIP, US and other soldiers exit building. Salute. Crowd in town....

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• irn1000788
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(Munich 283) Border Control Security, Vicinity of Hof, Germany, June 20, 1946. LS, troopers of the 28th Constabulary Squad leaving command post "on the double" at Bad Steben, near Russian border, and getting into jeeps and M-8 armored cars. Jeeps and M-8 squadron travelling through town of Bad Steben on way to border. Scenes of the squadron moving through countryside past RR and station at Lichtenberg. Two jeeps and an M-8 taking their postions at border. Shot from top of jeep showing sign at roadway, "American Territory." Russian guard seen on other side. MS of sign giving warning that una...

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• irn1000789
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(Munich 194) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, March 23, 1946. HSs, Camp Dachau. LS, entrance of War Crimes court building. LS, bunker in which defendants are quartered. (Munich 206) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 3, 1946. Justices Parker, De Vabre and Falco. Dr. Robert Servatius, counsel for Sauckel, questions Dr. Max Wilhelm Jaeger. MSs, von Ribbentrop and Keitel; MP standing at left; Sauckel in BG. Pan, from prisoners' dock to Dr. Jaeger testifying. MS, two attorneys of the Russian staff at table. MS, Jacques Herzog, member of the French prosecution, listening.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000790
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(Paris 446) Dachau Concentration Camp Trials, Dachau, Germany, December 11-12, 1945. LS, truck passes through entrance of camp. VS, building and church on the grounds. HAS, barracks. VS, German prisoners unload huge containers from trucks. LS, German civilian and military prisoners marching on grounds. LS, ovens in crematorium. LS, wax figures of guard beating prisoner. Prosecution counsel during summation in court. LS, commission at bench. Pan to courtroom and spectators. MSs, accused prisoners in courtroom. Pan, MSs, judges seated at bench include Col PO Ward, Col Blanchard, Col Richards,...

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• irn1000791
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(LIB 1262) Imhoff Camp for Women, Germany. MCUs, three women prisoners of concentration camp relate their experiences as slave laborers for the Nazis. MS, American Red Cross representative speaks to the three women, telling them of the help they will receive and of the new camp which will house them.

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• irn1000792
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War Atrocities, Dortmund, Germany, April 30, 1945. INTs, sick and tubercular slave laborers in hospital beds at former German concentration camp. MSs, US doctors and medics care for the sick. CUs, doctor treats severe head wound. CUs, various sick prisoners, many with wounds and bruises. The majority of the prisoners are emaciated. Exhumation of Bodies, Landwehr (sp?), Germany, April 30, 1945. HSs, MSs, CUs, former Nazi Gestapo agents and civilians remove bodies of murdered political prisoners from mass grave. MSs, entrance to cave where prisoners were held before their assassination. CUs, ...

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• irn1000793
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(LIB 5215) German Concentration Camp, Holzen, Germany, April 8, 1945. LSs, soldiers of 329th Regiment, 83rd Division, near German concentration camp. CUs, Russian, Polish, Czech and Jewish prisoners behind barbed-wire fence. VS, undernourished prisoners. MS, internee picking lice from body of another internee. Officers and soldiers speaking with internees. 02:11:58 The newly liberated prisoner, Adriaan Thomson, with his hands clasped together talks to an American officer. MSs, officers leaving cave where French and Italian slave labor was employed making V-1 buzz bombs. (LIB 5216) Pockets, ...

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• irn1000794
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Political Prisoners' Concentration Camp, Langenstein, Germany, April 18, 1945. MSs, sick prisoners are removed on litters from barracks and placed in ambulance. MSs, CUs, unburied bodies of the dead lie in an open pit. MSs, Maj Gen Raymond S. McLain, CG of the XIX Corps, looking into the pit. VS, group of US officers and Gen McLain inspect camp. MS, Pan, deceased prisoners lying in open pit. MSs, several thin, starved-looking prisoners talk to US officer and a doctor. VS, sick prisoners on litters are carried from ambulances to the 20th Field Hospital tents in Halberstadt. CUs, medical offi...

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• irn1000795
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(B-1222) KZ Gusen, Austria, May 11, 1945. MSs, CUs, large pile of bodies and individual bodies at Gusen, a sub-camp of Mauthausen. MSs, CUs, weak, emaciated prisoners wandering in the camp. CUs, starved prisoners. MSs, inmates of women's section. CUs, starved, naked prisoners being cared for by other inmates. MSs, CUs, German SS troops pulling carts containing bodies. VS, bodies being gathered throughout camp area and loaded onto wagons. MSs, German civilians digging graves. HLS, pan, camp area showing barracks, barbed wire fences and guard towers. VS, liberated prisoners crowded in open fi...

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(LIB 5407) Roosevelt's Death, London, England, April 13, 1945. CUs, three US soldiers in Grosvenor Square read headlines announcing the death of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. MCUs, flags flying at half mast over US Embassy. CUs, US soldiers and British civilians reading papers in Leicester Square. VS, two soldiers look at paper enclosed in glass showing photo of Pres. Roosevelt and VP Harry S. Truman. LS, US and British flags at half-mast on other buildings of city. EXT shots, soldiers and civilians enter and leave Westminster Abbey. (LIB 5568) Concentration Camp, Nordhausen, Germany, April ...

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(LIB 6092) City of Regensburg, Germany, April 27, 1945. LS, CUs, infantrymen and trucks of the 65th Infantry Division cross bridge, drive thru streets and outskirts of town. LS, wrecked cars in railroad yard. VS, German civilians clear earthen roadblock under archway, shoveling rocks into carts. CUs, captured German WAC and other prisoners. Seq: Germans, Russians and Poles search through wrecked railroad cars picking out clothing, food and other useful articles. MSs, CUs, German and US officers at surrender proceedings in town square. (NOTE: Surrender was effected between Col Frank Dunkerly...

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• irn1000798
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Ardeatine Caves Massacre, Italy. CUs, doctor in white lab coat taking notes. CU, notes. Sign: "Reparto Riconoscimento." Men carrying coffin, with body. Doctor in office, meeting with civilians dressed in black who identify personal effects. CUs, women with personal belongings. A man enters office, to identify personal belongings. CUs, clothing, documents. CUs, human remains with no. 101, 106. VAR, bodies in open coffins. Blessing of bodies by priest. Woman viewing remains, being held up by two men, crying. Coffins with flowers. CU, nameplates: "Montezemolo" "Renzo Giorgini" Pan, relatives d...

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• irn1000799
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(LIB 6555) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs, American officer of the XV Corps (off screen) speaking to an Albanian, Doctor Ali Zeno Kuchi, who relates in English his experiences in the prison camps of Vienna and Dachau. The doctor was a newspaperman prior to the invasion of his country by the Fascists.

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(LIB 6780) Displaced Russians, Ohrdruf, Germany, May 22, 1945. MSs, CUs, Russian soldiers, using US 2 1/2 ton trucks, transport Russian DPs from camp. CUs, individuals with bundles board trucks. LS, huge crowd waiting for transportation. (LIB 6781) Release of Prisoners of War, Plauen, Germany, May 21, 1945. MSs, German prisoners in front of administration building. Seq: Camera follows the complete processing of an individual soldier as he has his papers stamped, undergoes physical examination, receives money allowance and discharge papers. Cut to uniformed soldier meeting his wife and child...

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Photographs and newspaper articles posted for 320 Italian civilians murdered in Ardeatine Caves massacre on March 24, 1944. It is likely that this film was recorded months later, during the summer of 1944. Blessing of bodies by priest, and burial of corpses. Crowds of Italians. Man in hospital bed.

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• irn1000802
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Execution of Italian civilian connected with Ardeatine Caves massacre. INTs, civil court. Trial of Italian civilian connected with the massacre. Note: 320 Italian civilians were murdered in Ardeatine Caves on March 24, 1944. It is likely that this film was recorded months later, during the summer of 1944.

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• 1938-1939
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Reel 5 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). COLOR. Title: "Ausflug zum Kehlstein." [Excursion to Kehlstein] Nazi flag reflected in headlight of Mercedes automobile (short). B/W. Car traveling on mountain road, group admiring scenery, taking pictures. Market, carnival. Group of actors filming "Der laufende Berg" in the Bavarian mountains. CU, actress Hansi Knoteck. Group shots include actors Paul Richter, Maria Andergast, and Hans Deppe. The actors, in the company of actor/director Fritz Kampers, in front of the door to the Kehlsteinhaus. COLOR. Country scenes,...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000804
• English
• 1944
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Project Gunn, Office of Strategic Services, Field Photographic Branch, Unit 24, 1944. Film Report: On a mission headed by Lt. Col Gunn during World War II to rescue by air Allied airmen in a POW camp southwest of Bucharest, Romania. REEL 2: Scenes of downed fliers in POW camp. Men in hospitals getting ready for evacuation. Bomb damage to Ploesti oil fields. Ambulant and wounded POWs board B-17's.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000805
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• 1944
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Project Gunn, Office of Strategic Services, Field Photographic Branch, Unit 24, 1944. Film Report: On a mission headed by Lt. Col Gunn during World War II to rescue by air Allied airmen in a POW camp southwest of Bucharest, Romania. REEL 1: AVs, Albanian coastline and Danube River as plane approaches Ploesti airfield. Romanian officials greet O.S.S officers to arrange evacuation of the prisoners.