Exhumation of Labor Battalion

Identifier
irn1000591
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.270.1
  • RG-60.0808
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hungarian
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • National Film Institute Hungary

Scope and Content

Exhumation in field, officials look and take photos. Narration: "A barbaric Nazi act in Hungary on October 18, 1944. The German SS took 25 labor battalion members to Cinkota, promising them after completing work they will be released. They had them dig trenches, they were shot, and thrown into the trenches." Exhumation and identification of the victims. One of the labor battalion members escaped and [after liberation] brought the authorities to the massacre site.

Note(s)

  • Tamas Fulop helped with translations.

Subjects

  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
  • FORCED LABOR
  • EXECUTIONS
  • CAMERA OPERATORS
  • LABOR
  • PHOTOGRAPHS
  • MILITARY OFFICERS
  • EXHUMATIONS
  • SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)
  • LIBERATION
  • GERMANS
  • MASSACRES
  • HUNGARY

Places

  • Cinkota, Hungary

Genre

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