Dachau aftermath; typhus, burning uniforms; survivors

Identifier
irn1000743
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.0865
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

(LIB 6573) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. MCUs, US soldier removes German sign over doorway: "Strasse der SS" MSs, statue of Nazi soldier in the camp. MCUs, pan, pile of prison uniforms burning in open field. Sign nearby: "Typhus, Beware." MSs, former inmates push prison clothing in wagon and unload it at dump. MSs, through barbed wire fence, victims of camp lying on litters. CUs, ragged dirty prisoners cooking around small fires. CUs, ragged dirty prisoners picking lice from their bodies and clothing. MSs, German civilians viewing pile of bodies through open doorway. MSs, Maj. Gen. Wilton B. Persons and Congressmen C. Wayland Brooks and John V. Vorys viewing bodies.

Subjects

  • BARBED WIRE
  • SURVIVORS
  • UNIFORMS
  • CORPSES
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • LIBERATION
  • CLOTHES
  • BARRACKS
  • SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)
  • STATUES
  • LICE
  • COOKING
  • TYPHUS
  • CONGRESS (U.S.)
  • CIVILIANS
  • SIGNS/POSTERS
  • DACHAU
  • FIRES

Places

  • Dachau, Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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