US Army Air Force; Dachau; Munich destruction
Creator(s)
- United States. Army Air Forces. (Producer)
- C E. Nerpel (Camera Operator)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- Davolt (Camera Operator)
Scope and Content
MS, CUs four P-47s in flight. P-47s buzz countryside, pull up at airfield, in flight again. CU mechanic works on P-47 engine. MCU crew chief in cockpit of P-47. Crew chief uses air hose to clean engine. 10:06:25 Very dark shot with light inside an oven in Dachau crematory. CU tattooed prison number of Dachau inmate. CU man's sleeve is pulled up to show number tattooed on arm. CU painting of men hanging from arms as Nazi officials look on. CU painting showing forms of torture in Dachau. CU address and signature of artist. MS of Feldturnhalle in Munich with white lettering on side of building reading "Concentration Camp Dachau-Belsen-Buchenwald. I am ashamed that I am a German." (transl. of German) MS Nazi eagle and swastika. Bomb damage in building. MS bomb damage in vicinity of Munich square. MS Hitler's original brown house in ruins. MS sign and Nazi plaque on Feldturnhalle (plaque commemorates sixteen Nazi party members shot in 1923). MS bridge and buildings in Munich. MS bomb damage in Munich, including the Church of the Two Towers. CU crew chief paints insignia on side of P-47, "My Reverie." 10:11:48 MS as vast throng of airfield personnel pass camera, parked P-47s in FG and BG. 10:15:55 CUs, officer posing at airbase. 10:16:38 Aerial pan to Rhine River and destroyed bridge on Rhine. Shot of German prisoners dug into ground. Aerial view of Rhine River.
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
- SWASTIKAS
- NAZI PARTY
- HITLER, ADOLF
- AIRPLANES
- BRIDGES
- DACHAU
- RIVERS
- TATTOOS
- PAINTINGS
- RUINS
- RHINE RIVER
- TORTURE
- SIGNS/POSTERS
- PRISONERS (GERMAN)
- CREMATORIA
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
- CHURCHES
- BUILDINGS
- AIR FORCE (U.S.)
- AIRPORTS
- MILITARY VEHICLES
- GERMANS
- SURVIVORS
- GERMANY
- BOMBINGS
- DESTRUCTION
Places
- Dachau, Germany
- Munich, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.