Corpses; exhumation; burial; survivors; sick

Identifier
irn1001261
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2382
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

Scope and Content

Corpses are removed from a cellar in Stovelot, Belgium, and buried in a common grave. German civilians under guard exhume victims at Arnstadt, and bury corpses at Leipzig. Emaciated Hungarian women are evacuated from a concentration camp. Shows hospitalized inmates.

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.

Subjects

  • WOUNDED
  • BELGIUM
  • PRISONERS (HUNGARIAN)
  • CROSSES
  • HOSPITALS
  • COFFINS
  • MEDICAL CARE
  • PENIG
  • SURVIVORS
  • TENTS
  • GRAVES
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • CHILDREN
  • JEEPS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • ATROCITIES
  • WOMEN
  • GERMANY
  • CORPSES
  • RED CROSS
  • BURIALS
  • BARBED WIRE
  • PRISONERS
  • CIVILIANS

Places

  • , Belgium
  • Arnstadt, Germany
  • Leipzig, Germany
  • Penig, Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Documentary.
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