German civilians view atrocities

Identifier
irn1001457
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2339
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

(LIB 6215) German Atrocities, Suttrop, Germany, May 3, 1945. MSs, German men, women, and children walk past exhumed, decomposed bodies of murdered Russians lying in woods. CUs, various types of civilians and their reactions as they view the dead. VS, bodies including a woman with a month-old baby. CUs, several bodies with their skulls crushed. CUs, German civilians remove bodies from common graves and bury them individually. MSs, Russian woman puts flowers in grave. MCUs, 95th Div. chaplain conducts services. MS, sign in Russian at burial site.

Subjects

  • GERMANS
  • ATROCITIES
  • CIVILIANS
  • CORPSES
  • BURIALS
  • RELIGIOUS SERVICES
  • CLERGY
  • GRAVES
  • GERMANY
  • FLOWERS
  • MASS GRAVES

Places

  • , Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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