Luftwaffe; Flossenbuerg camp

Identifier
irn1000749
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2012
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • Weiner (Camera Operator)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • R.H. Butterfield (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

(LIB 6354) Luftwaffe Wing, Ampfing, Germany, May 6, 1945. VS, group of German soldiers piling rifles, panzerfausts (type of rocket launcher), helmets and other equipment to be turned over to 14th Armd Div. MS, CU, German soldiers are served food from their own field kitchen. MS, troops of Luftwaffe Jet-Propelled Wing in formation. LS, MS, trucks and other vehicles containing technical jet equipment. (LIB 6355) Concentration Camp, Flossenburg, Germany, May 4, 1945. CU, underground entrance to crematorium. MSs, CUs, crematorium in pit enclosed by high stone wall. CU, pile of bones and ashes. LSs, MSs, camp buildings, double barbed wire fence enclosures and guard towers. LSs, CU, blood-stained wall, scene of executions in the camp. LS, hospital, barracks and other buildings.

Note(s)

  • See also Story 1269, Film ID 2904 for duplicate and similar scenes of Flossenbuerg.

Subjects

  • LUFTWAFFE (GERMAN AIR FORCE)
  • ARTILLERY
  • BUILDINGS
  • BARBED WIRE
  • HUMAN REMAINS
  • HOSPITALS
  • BARRACKS
  • WEAPONS/ARMS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • FLOSSENBUERG
  • WATCH TOWERS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • CREMATORIA
  • AIRPLANES
  • EATING
  • GUNS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)

Places

  • Ampfing, Germany
  • Flossenbuerg, Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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