Hadamar; POWs raid for food; Breendonck torture devices
Creator(s)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
Scope and Content
Inquests are held at Hadamar with Dr. Wahlmann and Karl Muller (male nurse, morphine). At Meppene, soldiers delousing liberated Russian POWs. Amputees walk by. Prisoners search garbage cans for food. Crowd of disabled prisoners walk by camera in group. Survivors lying down outside, boy passes by in cart/wheelchair. Various shots of wounded/disabled prisoners eating soup, sleeping. Stretcher goes by with naked corpses. CUs, corpses. Three stretchers carried by four men at shoulder height pass in front of barbed wire fence. In Paderborn, Russian soldier argues with person off camera. Liberated prisoners raiding food stores at camp, breaking windows, crowds grabbing for food, survivors eating desperately. In Munster, LS, buildings (brick and warehouses). Man washing feet. Liberated French POWs crouched around pots/fires, eating, CUs. Water distributed from tank on wheels. "Demonstration of Gestapo Methods" Barracks, coffins, torture demonstrations at Breendonck.
Note(s)
Refer to SSFVA files for a source list of the miscellaneous film "Atrocities" cataloged at NARA as 111 M 1190. Sources include March of Time, News of the Day, Signal Corps, MGM, Fox Movietone News, American Newsreel Pool, Universal Newsreel, and others.
Subjects
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY
- PRISONERS
- TORTURE
- GERMANY
- SURVIVORS
- WAHLMANN, ADOLF
- POWS (SOVIET)
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET)
- MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS
- ATROCITIES
- DOCTORS
- PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
- FOOD
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
- INTERVIEWS
- LIBERATION
- BELGIUM
- CORPSES
- BARBED WIRE
- HADAMAR INSTITUTE
- POWS (FRENCH)
Places
- Breendonck, Belgium
- Muenster, Germany
- Paderborn, Germany
- Meppen, Germany
- Hadamar, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.