Corpses at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp; atrocities

Identifier
irn1001274
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1991.256.1
  • RG-60.0128
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

Scope and Content

German Atrocities, Ohrdruf, Germany, April 7, 1945. MPs herding civilians of Ohrdruf through shed to view bodies of victims. Germans reluctant to enter shed. Taken to outdoor crematorium. CUs, charred bodies lying in piles in mud. MCUs bodies stacked in shed. Civilians shocked. 4th Division Finds Victims of Atrocity, Ohrdruf, Germany, April 7, 1945. Corpses scattered around camp grounds. MS officer looks into shed and sees piles of dead bodies. Officer speaks to remaining prisoners who hid in woods until Germans left. MS victim of malnutrition.

Note(s)

  • The German officer with a cross on his sleeve at 02:28:55 also appears in Story 2243 on Film ID 867.

Subjects

  • CREMATORIA
  • LIBERATION
  • PRISONERS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • CORPSES
  • CIVILIANS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • OHRDRUF
  • SURVIVORS
  • ATROCITIES
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • GERMANY
  • GERMANS

Places

  • Bad Lippspringe, Germany
  • Houstenbeck, Germany
  • Ohrdruf, Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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