March of Time -- outtakes -- British delegates visit Buchenwald
Creator(s)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- Universal (Producer)
- Otto Feuer (Subject)
- March of Time, Inc. (Producer)
Biographical History
Otto Feuer is a survivor of Buchenwald.
Scope and Content
British MPs at Buchenwald, Buchenwald, Germany, September, 1946. VS, convoy bearing British delegates arrive and enter the camp. Walking about the camp, inspecting and talking to inmates. VS, Mrs. Mavis Tate and others interview victims in prison courtyard. Survivors cook over fire behind barbed wire. INT, barracks at Buchenwald, talking to survivors in prisoner uniforms lying on cots. CU, pan, two emaciated victims. VS, Mrs. Tate and inspection party through barbed wire. Pan, tilt shot from pile of naked bodies to MPs looking on. MS, inspection party looking at a truck full of dead bodies. CU, corpses. MPs looking at dead bodies and taking notes. British delegation inspecting truck load of bodies in prison courtyard. INTs, crematorium. CU, pile of pulverized bones. LS, inspecting gallows in courtyard. 02:29:58 Otto Feuer, a Buchenwald survivor wearing hat and white armband on sleeve, walks up to the gallows carrying papers. 02:29:51 Otto Feuer walks to Lt. Col. Edward Thomas "Tom" Ruscombe Wickham. Note: The inspection party includes: Mrs. Mavis Tate, Sir Graham White, Sir Henry Jones, Lord Stanhope, Lord Addison, Sir Archibald Southby, Lt. Colonel Wickham, Ness Edward, E. Silverman, Tom Driberg.
Note(s)
Otto Feuer's sons donated to the Museum Otto's prisoner uniform, jacket, and armband that he is seen wearing in this footage. Also refer to the photograph with Otto Feuer and Lt. Col. Tom Wickham - Photo Archive #08453 - http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1040239.
Subjects
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH)
- HUMAN REMAINS
- PRISONERS
- ATROCITIES
- MARCH OF TIME
- BUCHENWALD
- COOKING
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
- PRISONERS (JEWISH)
- CORPSES
- BARRACKS
- CREMATORIA
- BARBED WIRE
- ENGLAND
- GALLOWS
Places
- Buchenwald, Germany
Genre
- Outtakes.
- Film