Concentration camp atrocities

Identifier
irn1002089
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.146.1
  • RG-60.2597
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
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EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

"Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans: "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism.] Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include: Ohrdruf: Eisenhower visiting the camp; demonstrations of torture; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; corpses; crematoria Ziegenheim: liberated men; a typical day's ration of food Kaunitz: mass graves; a woman's tattooed arm; wounds Holzen: men behind barbed wire; emaciated survivors Schwarzenfeld: mass graves; burial of corpses Goettingen: maltreatment of POWs; emaciated bodies; food Hadamar: interrogation/detention of SS guards and camp officials; exhumation/autopsies NOTE: The original use of this material was entitled "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey" or "Atrocities Found in German Camps" (originally classified "restricted").

Note(s)

  • See Film ID 158 for "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey"

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