Exhumation; Inspection of gas chambers; Lt. Hodges
Creator(s)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
- Laurence (Camera Operator)
Scope and Content
01:07:44 (B-759) WWII Removal of bodies from graves and placement into caskets. CUs, bodies with hands tied behind backs. Pulling bodies out of graves. Wiping dirt away from bound hands. Foreign (Allied) soldiers and coffins [soft focus]. Prying off gloves from corpse hand with metal implement. Soldiers; graves. 01:09:45 (B-760) WWII INTs of gas chamber used by the Germans in the execution of prisoners. Demonstrating method of securing prisoners in gas chambers. Various CUs, pipes leading into room. Pan, wall surrounding concentration camp. LSs, CUs, Pan, three execution posts. ICU, rosary beads and masks. CUs, Pan, hand prints and scratches dug into cement wall of gas chamber by the victims. 01:14:08 (B-794) Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges in Belgium, September 15, 1944. VS, ext, Lt. Gen. Hodges in Master Tac HQ area. Hodges conducts Lt. Gen. Miles E. Dempsey, ERC 2nd British Army, through the area. CUS, Gens jeep and sedan. VS, Hodges bids farewell to Archbishop Francis J. Spellman.
Note(s)
USHMM replaced the digital video file created from videotape in 2013 with a new 2K scan from 35mm in February 2020. The scans were made by NARA's Motion Picture Preservation laboratory as part of the Horizon 20/20 project: "Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age" - https://www.vhh-project.eu/en/.
Subjects
- COFFINS
- MILITARY OFFICERS
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ALLIES)
- GRAVES
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS
- HUMAN REMAINS
- EXHUMATIONS
- GAS CHAMBERS
- BELGIUM
Places
- , Germany
- , Belgium
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.