Concentration camp atrocities
Creator(s)
- (Producer)
- Imperial War Museums
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: Arnstadt: tents in camp; corpses Belsen: survivors; corpses; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; Josef Kramer; interrogation/detention of SS guards and camp officials Gardelegen: corpses; interview Leipzig: rubble; corpses/ash/burned bodies; peasants at barbed wire fence viewing atrocities Nordhausen: corpses; tending to the sick; ambulances; burials with a chaplain Buchenwald: visit of British MPs and US congressmen; survivors (boys); film of corpses, crematoria, bones; map of Germany 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
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
- PEASANTS
- CIVILIANS
- RUBBLE
- SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)
- RUINS
- GARDELEGEN
- BARBED WIRE
- CREMATORIA
- INTERVIEWS
- CHILDREN
- ATROCITIES
- AMBULANCES
- KRAMER, JOSEF
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS
- CORPSES
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
- CHAPLAINS
- LIBERATION
- TENTS
- HUMAN REMAINS
- BERGEN-BELSEN
- GERMANY
- NORDHAUSEN
- BURIALS
- GERMANS
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- DISEASES
- MAPS
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH)
- FORCED CONFRONTATION
Places
- Gardelegen, Germany
- Bergen-Belsen, Germany
- Buchenwald, Germany
- Leipzig, Germany
- Arnstadt, Germany
- Nordhausen, Germany
Genre
- Newsreels.
- Film