Survivors and corpses at Buchenwald

Identifier
irn1000310
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.0859
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

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 men and children prisoners. CU, man with deformed face. Man drinking from large white tin mug. MLS, group seated around fire amid rubble. MS, survivors carrying barrels. MSs, Nazi planes, car going through gate, down street. MS, CU, emaciated bodies with numbers tatooed on their skin.

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