United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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• 1941
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Hermann Goering and Hitler at Goering's 48th birthday, walking briskly onto train. Chatting in train car. Light shining through window. Arrival at station. Goering in long dark leather coat. Hitler at train's doorway, saluting. [Handing out awards/badges to officers. Big dinner party.] Location: on the "Kanal Kuste."

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Gate of Anrnoldsweiler is opened by US soldier. Polish and Russian women prisoners are led through the gate. MSs, CUs, smiling faces of the releases women prisoners. Close up of soldier, "Hi Mom." MCU, large group, ex-prisoners speak to US soldiers and walk hand in hand through prison gate. Pan, CU, happy faces, different types of Polish and Russian political prisoners who were liberated by the US First Army. MSs, CU dead German soldier, face down in trench. MSs, CUs, German civilians and soldiers, escorted by US soldier with rifle, marched to POW camp. (Note: This concentration camp housed...

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Slate: "Capt. Carter, Prod #186, Buchenwald, Rock-C39, Date 4-16-45" HAS of crowd of German civilians in main courtyard of Buchenwald, moving about, mix of soldiers and civilians. Male survivor stands in front of a building. Barred window partially visible in BG. Man is wearing what appears to be a uniform coat and looks directly at the camera. CU of his face as he demonstrates facial wounds; he has scars on his face and one eye is swollen shut. A younger male prisoner looks right and left and then directly at the camera. Camera pans from toe to head of a woman, against the same wall; she i...

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Various LS views of camp. CU of a searchlight, the camera pans down to the square of the camp, smaller searchlights are in the FG. Camera pans down to barracks and across the plaza. People are scattered and walking around. MS of a clock/tower (from side), closer shot. CU of a prisoner's back with marked coat (a square of striped fabric over a red X). There is a crowd behind him. Another survivor with similar marking on back (no X). CU of a survivor with a hat, explaining something, gesturing in a wheel-like motion with hands, a patch with an X is on her back, dancing around in a circle. CU ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000304
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(LIB 6133) Atrocity, Neuenburg, Germany, April 29, 1945. Seq: Civilian population gathers for reburial of slave laborers killed by the German SS troops. Wooden coffins are carried by women and men to lawn of government building. CUs, faces and bodies of murdered victims. VS, procession of men carrying bodies in open coffins marches through streets. (LIB 6114) Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Weimar, Germany, April 26, 1945. Seq: United Nations War Crimes Commission officers visit camp site. Group tours camp. Included in those photographed are Mr. Oldham, Australia; Mr. Stavropoulos, Gree...

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(B-1205) Concentration Camp, Ebensee, Austria, May 8, 1945. MCU, body placed in furnace of crematorium. CU, naked corpse (pan of body from feet to head). MSs, CUs, men unloading cart of corpses, carrying bodies into crematorium on stretchers. Mountain range in BG. Two boys in uniforms sleeping on bench with luggage between them. MS, three men unloading bread from truck into building. LS, EXT, storage, former prisoners and Allied guards milling about, guarding door with guns. Priest talking to soldiers. LS, Vista/landscape. MS, CUs, several naked, starved inmates too weak to walk or move bei...

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At Buchenwald, survivors sit crouched around a fire, looking at the camera. German civilians file past after being taken through barracks. A flatbed of naked corpses situated in front of a building. MS, pile of bodies alongside building as civilians walk past. Women walk by with their heads buried and their hands covering their mouths. Crowds of people with white flags line the road; Germans sit against a fence. Overturned carts on the road with items scattered everywhere; horses eat from the abandoned carts. U.S. infantry run from a tank that is firing into the forest. LS of a building beh...

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(LIB 6571) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3,5,6,9, 1945. INTs, Catholic mass for imprisoned priests. EXTs, chaplain holds services for camp inmates. CUs, individuals at services. CU, rosary beads. Rear views, priests with "X" and "KL" on backs of their coats. MS, altar. LS, crowd at Jewish service carrying flags (May 6, 1945). CU, Rabbi David Max Eichhorn with Torah, speaking to crowd. MSs, crowd, woman singing, speaking, crying. Woman giving flowers to the rabbi. Dr. Dortheimer stands to the left of the Rabbi; according to the testimony in RG-60.3006, Dortheimer was introduced at the s...

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(LIB 6574) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. LSs, CUs, freight and cattle cars containing bodies. MSs, German soldiers, possibly the enemy garrison of the camp, are marched through street. (LIB 6575) LSs, CUs, prisoners millling about camp street. CU, US soldier standing guard in front of prison gate (Arbeit Macht Frei); prisoners in BG. HSs, prison camp photographed from guard towers with mounted MGs in FG.

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• 1945
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(LIB 6556) Interview of Prisoner, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MS, off-screen interview of Jewish prisoner, Dr. Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Dortheimer. Dr. Dortheimer was a lawyer in Poland prior to his internment in the Nazi prison camp. He relates in English his experiences in the camp and describes the tortures suffered by all.

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• 1945
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Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, 1945. LSs, civilians kicking German soldier. MSs, civilians breaking windows in building. Camera (on automobile) traveling through outskirts town, passing people with bags, cart. In town, crowd on sidewalk, looting? store. MS, survivors in square. MSs, CUs, furnace doors being opened in crematorium showing remains of bodies not wholly consumed by fire. Demonstrating oven "tray." Pan, survivor with three ovens/crematoria in BG. Corpses on cart, in truck. CU, "Jedem das Seine" gate closing. Men circled around corpse, taking hats off. MSs, CUs, emaciated...

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(LIB 5927) Congressional Group, Weimar, Germany, April 24, 1945. MSs, CUs, officers speaking to the Senators at Buchenwald concentration camp. MSs, Senators viewing stack of naked bodies. MS, Senator Alben W Barkley standing next to pile of bodies. MSs, black soldiers speaking with group of senators. VS, Gen Omar N. Bradley talking with the senators. Seq: Senatorial group is met by Lt Gen Walter B Smith at the airfield. MS, Gen Dwight D Eisenhower and group of Senators come out of building and enter car. (LIB 5928) Checking Civilians at Duisburg, Germany, April 23, 1945. Seq: Soldiers of th...

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(LIB 6223) Slave Labor Camp, Flossenbruck [Flossenbuerg], Germany, April 30, 1945. Snow on ground in Cheb? MS, CU, banner on picket fence "Prisoners Happy End! Welcome!" CU sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" on concrete plaque by gate. CU, "Vorsicht Hochspannung Lebensgefahr." CU electrified barbed wire, guard towers, steel gates. Civilians standing outside. Horse-drawn cart with covered coffin and civilians moving through the gate. In Flossenburg, CU, four naked male survivors: two Jewish, one French, one Polish, with numbers tatooed on their chests. Pan down to feet (2 have pants pulled down). CU s...

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(LIB 6495) Concentration Camp, Mauthasen, Austria, May 7-8, 1945. Sound interview with Lt Jack H Taylor, US Navy, who tells of his work in the German-occupied countries of Europe, his capture, and his treatment as a prisoner. Sound interview with Sgt Louis Biagioni, US Army, who tells of his service behind the lines serving with Italian partisans in the the northeast section of Italy. The Sgt relates his capture by the Gestapo and treatment while in the prison camp. Transcription: Jack H. Taylor U.S. Navy, CA. "Interview with American Officer in Austria, October 44. Captured in December by ...

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• 1945
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(LIB 6069) 20th Armored Division, Dachau, Germany, April 1945. CU, sign: "Stadt Dachau." RVs, MS, M-24 tanks and vehicles of 20th Armored Division followed by infantrymen on foot enter city. Seq: Released Russian prisoners, civilians and soldiers rush to greet US soldiers. Short scene, German prisoners march through streets followed by US MPs in jeep. MCU, Russian soldier speaking with two US soldiers. VS, large group of slave laborers in courtyard of concentration camp. VS, US infantrymen attached to the division cautiously advance thru broken fences, backyards and across fields. (LIB 6070...

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Congressional Group, St. Valery, France, April 27, 1945. Seq: At Camp Lucky Strike for release of American prisoners of war, Congressmen, including Senator Alben W. Barkley, talk to some of the released men. Concentration Camp, Mauthausen, Austria, May 7-8, 1945. MS, CUs, inmates mobbing wagon loaded with potatoes in prison yard. MS, CU, prisoner eating spilled food from sidewalk. MCUs, German SS officer is badly beaten by liberated prisoners. Soldiers trying to get something out of Nazi's mouth. MSs, CUs, piles of emaciated bodies. Survivors near barbed wire holding out bowls.

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Hitler's (and German Army's) triumphant arrival in Austria. Many shots of wildly enthusiastic crowds (synch sound). Swastika-shaped confetti. Waves of Nazi frenzy through the countryside. Crowds lunging for miniature swastika flags. Rural folk line country road as German military rolls by. Steady tracking shot of Hitler's motorcade and thousands of people in Vienna, all gathered in square, hanging from trees, sitting on statues, etc.

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"East Berlin" Jews in street (in religious garb) intercut with Party Day 1927. Nazis marching in the street. Hitler, standing with Streicher in an open car, greets/salutes. Streicher et al festooned with flowers. Lots of people waving, saluting in the stands. Goebbels at NSDAP office, working at desk.

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Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 359, Parts 1 and 3. Release date, 12/27/1944. Part 1 (13:00:40-13:03:00): According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Greenland Freed of Nazis" Nazi weather and radio stations in Greenland are located and destroyed by the US Coast Guard who dynamites its way through the Arctic ice fields to reach the enemy. Sleek German trawlers are destroyed or captured, and the Nazis are driven from their North Atlantic observation points. Part 3 (13:04:00-13:05:39): "The War in Poland" Review of German occupation of Poland (mostly if not all Warsaw). Footage of Wars...

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Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 372, Part 4. Release date, 02/12/1945. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "St. Nazaire Civilians" After Yank-Nazi parleys under truce, French civilians are evacuated daily by French Red Cross train, from Nazi-held St. Nazaire. Small group of German officers speak to American soldiers, gather by train tracks (possible truce to get refugees out of St. Nazaire, France.) Train pulls up, view of little girl on crutches, people walking. Lots of little kids in train window waving, packed in. View from above of train pulling away. Other parts of the ne...