Ohrdruf; Hadamar

Identifier
irn1000292
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2265
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1945, 1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

Gens. Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton inspect Ohrdruf camp. Shows whipping posts, crematoriums, and corpses. Civilians taken on a tour of the camp. Shows emaciated inmates of Hadamar, hospital. Corpses are exhumed and buried; autopsies are made.

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

  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • HOSPITALS
  • BRADLEY, OMAR N.
  • CORPSES
  • CREMATORIA
  • EISENHOWER, DWIGHT
  • LIBERATION
  • CIVILIANS
  • HADAMAR INSTITUTE
  • DOCTORS
  • BARBED WIRE
  • OHRDRUF
  • GERMANS
  • ATROCITIES
  • PATTON, GEORGE
  • GRAVES
  • BURIALS
  • TORTURE
  • SURVIVORS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • GERMANY
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)

Places

  • Hadamar, Germany
  • Ohrdruf, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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