Congressional group; corpses at Mauthausen
Creator(s)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
Scope and Content
Congressional Group, St. Valery, France, April 27, 1945. Seq: At Camp Lucky Strike for release of American prisoners of war, Congressmen, including Senator Alben W. Barkley, talk to some of the released men. Concentration Camp, Mauthausen, Austria, May 7-8, 1945. MS, CUs, inmates mobbing wagon loaded with potatoes in prison yard. MS, CU, prisoner eating spilled food from sidewalk. MCUs, German SS officer is badly beaten by liberated prisoners. Soldiers trying to get something out of Nazi's mouth. MSs, CUs, piles of emaciated bodies. Survivors near barbed wire holding out bowls.
Subjects
- SURVIVORS
- AUSTRIA
- SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)
- FRANCE
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS
- CONGRESS (U.S.)
- BARBED WIRE
- CORPSES
- CARTS/WAGONS
- BEATINGS
- POTATOES
- INTERVIEWS
- EATING
- MAUTHAUSEN
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
- POWS (AMERICAN)
Places
- Mauthausen, Austria
- Saint Valery, France
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film
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