Murdered prisoners buried by German civilians
Creator(s)
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
Scope and Content
(LIB 5907) Murder, Gardelegen, Germany, April 22, 1945. HSs, long line of German civilians carrying grave markers and shovels leave village. CUs dead, skulls, corpses. VS, German civilians burying murdered prisoners who were burned to death. VS, German civilians carrying bodies in cemetery. (LIB 5908) Mass Murder, Leipzig, Germany, April 20, 1945. HSs, burned building in concentration camp with bodies lying in the wreckage. CUs, 2 survivors. CUs, partially burned bodies entangled in electrified barbed wire fence. Corpses in a shed and burned barracks. MCUs, Russian women, forced laborers, crying near barbed wire fence.
Note(s)
This story is related to Story 860, Film ID 833 and Story 2013, Film ID 839 (111 ADC 4051 and 111 ADC 4059).
Subjects
- CIVILIANS
- GARDELEGEN
- SHOVELS
- CEMETERIES
- FIRES
- GERMANS
- BURIALS
- PRISONERS
- GRAVES
- CORPSES
- GERMANY
- BARBED WIRE
- WOMEN
Places
- Leipzig, Germany
- Gardelegen, Germany
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film
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