Buchenwald during and after liberation

Identifier
irn1000269
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2206
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. Army Air Forces. (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • Murphy (Camera Operator)
  • Kelley (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

Mostly military scenes, group shots of soldiers, tanks and jeeps driving over bridges. CU, corpses with lime. MS, soldier (back to camera) looking into black doorway, taking picture. CU, dressed corpses, in loose pile on ground, blood on ground. WS, enormous mounds of white substance. Collapsed building, soldiers walking on top. LS tank driving over and into plane wreckage in a field. Tank driving towards camera. CU, four soldiers in tank. Refugees walking along road with oxen and big carts covered. Refugees on country path, bikes laden with belongings.

Note(s)

  • USHMM replaced the online streaming video with a new, higher resolution digital file produced for the VHH project. The 16mm film source from NARA was scanned by the Austrian Filmmuseum in 2021.

Subjects

  • REFUGEES
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • HUMAN REMAINS
  • MILITARY VEHICLES
  • LIBERATION
  • CARTS/WAGONS
  • BRIDGES
  • JEEPS
  • BICYCLES
  • TANKS
  • CORPSES
  • DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
  • BUCHENWALD
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY
  • AIRPLANES
  • BUILDINGS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)

Places

  • Buchenwald, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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