War atrocities; exhumation of bodies

Identifier
irn1001450
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2331
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

War Atrocities, Dortmund, Germany, April 30, 1945. INTs, sick and tubercular slave laborers in hospital beds at former German concentration camp. MSs (VQ: mostly underexposed), US doctors and medics care for the sick. CUs, doctor treats severe head wound. CUs, various sick prisoners, many with wounds and bruises. The majority of the prisoners are emaciated. Exhumation of Bodies, Landwehr (sp?), Germany, April 30, 1945. HSs, MSs, CUs, former Nazi Gestapo agents and civilians remove bodies of murdered political prisoners from mass grave. MSs, entrance to cave where prisoners were held before their assassination. CUs, decomposed bodies.

Note(s)

  • Duplicate footage on Film ID 836, Story 2004.

Subjects

  • CORPSES
  • EXHUMATIONS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • GESTAPO
  • DISEASES
  • DOCTORS
  • SURVIVORS
  • HUMAN REMAINS
  • GRAVES

Places

  • , Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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