Dachau Concentration Camp

Identifier
irn1001407
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2287
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

(LIB 6519) Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, May 1-4, 1945. CUs, dead bodies in railroad cars. MS, huge pile of discarded prison uniforms. CUs, prisoners unloading bodies from wagons in front of cemetery. Large group of prisoners is sprayed with DDT powder. MS, prisoners in courtyard waving from behind barbed wire fence. In FG can be seen dead German guards. VS, prisoners parading in camp, carrying flags of various nations and pictures of Stalin and Tito. CUs, prisoners quarreling and fighting for food container (seems staged). MS, CUs large pile of bodies in front of building. CUs, sick, emaciated prisoners wrapped in blankets.

Subjects

  • PRISONERS
  • FOOD
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
  • UNIFORMS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • PARADES
  • DACHAU
  • CORPSES
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • RAILCARS
  • FLAGS
  • BARBED WIRE

Places

  • Dachau, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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