Kesselring; Mauthausen at liberation

Identifier
irn1000698
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2022
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

Kesselring Meeting, Zellam See, Austria, May 8, 1945. VS, occupants of a halted convoy study maps. (The convoy of US vehicles, led by German officer in a German vehicle, attempts to make contact with Field Marshal Albert Kesselring.) MSs, convoy of US jeeps and German jeeps passing camera. VS, convoy pulls into hotel area. MLS, train pulls into railroad station at Saalfelden. CU, Nazi insignia. INTs (underexposed footage), meeting between German Gen. Westphal and other officers. Field Marshal Kesselring, Bertchesgaden, Germany, May 10, 1945. MSs, CUs, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring with Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor pose for photographers. MSs, Marshal Kesselring, Gen. Taylor and Maj. Gen. Gerald J. Higgins. MSs, Marshal Kesselring and unidentified German officer walk through gardens. Concentration Camp, Mauthausen, Austria, May 11, 1945. MSs, CUs, large pile of naked emaciated bodies awaiting burial. MSs, German civilians with help of bulldozer dig graves. MSs, Group of inmates of camp. Ind CUs, inmates of women's section of camp. CU, woman with young baby/newborn.

Note(s)

  • It is possible that Anke Kauderová and Eva Clarke (newborn) appear in the final shot at Mauthausen showing a woman with her baby. Eva Clarke was born on April 29, 1945 at the gates of Mathausen. Her mother, Anke, was on a death march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen arriving April 29. She went into labor as soon as she saw the words Mauthausen. Their story is depicted in Wendy Holden's BORN SURVIVORS (2015).

Subjects

  • MAUTHAUSEN
  • MILITARY OFFICERS
  • GERMANS
  • CIVILIANS
  • GRAVES
  • BERCHTESGADEN
  • SWASTIKAS
  • CORPSES
  • CAMERA OPERATORS
  • BURIALS
  • KESSELRING, ALBERT
  • WOMEN
  • AUSTRIA
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • BULLDOZERS
  • BABIES
  • SURVIVORS
  • TRAIN STATIONS
  • JEEPS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
  • TRAINS
  • MAPS
  • MILITARY VEHICLES
  • LIBERATION
  • HOTELS
  • MASS GRAVES

Places

  • Berchtesgaden, Germany
  • Mauthausen, Austria

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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