Landsberg camp and burials

Identifier
irn1001189
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2261
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

(LIB 6198) Stalag #4 Concentration Camp, Landsberg, Germany, April 29, 1945. US soldiers of the 103rd Division, VI Corps, Seventh US Army, round up civilian work detail and load men with picks and shovels into trucks. MS, CUs German civilians bury bodies of Jewish political prisoners. INT underground barracks used to house the prisoners. CUs emaciated bodies of dead Jews in the camp. CUs and long pan, double barbed wire fence surrounding camp. CU partially burned bodies are removed from buliding. MS, CUs several of the living inmates.

Note(s)

  • Incorrectly labeled on slate as 111 ADC 4128. This is 111 ADC 4182.

Subjects

  • SHOVELS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • CIVILIANS
  • BARBED WIRE
  • FIGHTING
  • FIRES
  • SURVIVORS
  • SURVIVORS (JEWISH)
  • BARRACKS
  • SURRENDER
  • GERMANY
  • POW CAMPS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • FRANCE
  • CORPSES
  • JEWS
  • POWS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY
  • PRISONERS (POLITICAL)
  • BURIALS
  • LANDSBERG
  • PRISONERS (JEWISH)
  • TRUCKS
  • CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Places

  • Landsberg, Germany
  • , Czechoslovakia
  • Moosburg, Germany
  • Reims, France

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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