Corpses, survivors at Dachau

Identifier
irn1000189
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.492.1
  • RG-60.0009
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Henry (Camera Operator)
  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • McCarthy (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

(LIB 6576) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. LSs, CUs, survivors attending services conducted by American Jewish chaplain. Women and men weeping. Flags, chaplain at podium. CUs, corpses. LS, outdoor church services. MSs, survivors, flags. 02:47:43 LS, MSs Men wrapped in blankets, sitting on flatbed, assisted by liberators. Naked corpse lying in stretcher, EXT. Church service, flags. Cut to piles of corpses. Full screen view, starved, mutilated bodies of former camp inmates. Additional scenes, freight cars loaded with dead bodies. 02:50:00 HSs, long line of German prisoners is marched thru streets in Munich (scratched). Dog in snow. MSs, INTs, oven in crematorium containing bones and ashes.

Subjects

  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • RELIGIOUS SERVICES
  • CORPSES
  • DACHAU
  • FLAGS
  • GERMANY
  • LIBERATION
  • CHAPLAINS
  • CREMATORIA
  • SURVIVORS (JEWISH)
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • RELIGIOUS SERVICES (JEWISH)

Places

  • Munich, Germany
  • Dachau, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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