Ardeatine Caves; FFI; torture chamber; corpses

Identifier
irn1001260
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2381
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. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • March of Time, Inc. (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

Corpses of Italians executed by the Nazis are removed from the Ardeatine caves; last rites are given the victims; this was most likely filmed in July 1944 by the March of Time. A funeral cortege for FFI dead moves through Paris. Shows a Gestapo torture chamber in the city; corpses of US airmen in a field at Gambsheim; the removal of corpses from a cellar in Bande, Belgium; and last rites and burial of the victims.

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.

  • 320 Italian civilians were murdered in Ardeatine Caves on March 24, 1944. It is likely that this film was recorded months later, during the summer of 1944.

Subjects

  • FLAGS
  • CORPSES
  • BURIALS
  • MEDICAL CARE
  • TOWNS
  • FLOWERS
  • ATROCITIES
  • FUNERALS
  • COFFINS
  • HORSES
  • ARDEATINE CAVES
  • CHURCHES
  • CROWDS

Places

  • , Italy
  • Paris, France
  • , Belgium

Genre

  • Film
  • Documentary.
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