Concentration camp atrocities
Creator(s)
- Imperial War Museums
- (Producer)
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"
Subjects
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)
- EXHUMATIONS
- MASS GRAVES
- POWS
- GRAVES
- BURIALS
- TATTOOS
- ATROCITIES
- EISENHOWER, DWIGHT
- CIVILIANS
- TORTURE
- CREMATORIA
- LIBERATION
- FOOD
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
- GERMANY
- PRISONERS
- GERMANS
- BARBED WIRE
- CORPSES
- WOUNDED
- OHRDRUF
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Places
- Hadamar, Germany
- Ohrdruf, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Newsreels.