US army in Dachau; Germans flee Russian army

Identifier
irn1000314
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.0864
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

(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) Germans flee from Russian Army, Grimma, Germany, April 26, 1945. LSs, CUs, large groups of German civilians, soldiers and a few released Allied prisoners of war crossing a wrecked bridge over the Elbe River and coming into US lines. VS, German civilians on East Bank of Elbe waiting to cross.

Subjects

  • PRISONERS (GERMAN)
  • LABOR
  • POWS
  • TANKS
  • DACHAU
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ALLIES)
  • GERMANY
  • RIVERS
  • GERMANS
  • CIVILIANS
  • MILITARY VEHICLES
  • PRISONERS (SOVIET)
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET)
  • ELBE RIVER
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • BRIDGES

Places

  • Dachau, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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