DP Camp Brand; bodies of anti-Nazis found

Identifier
irn1003054
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.541.1
  • RG-60.3578
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Lobdell (Camera Operator)
  • Joyce R. Farber (Camera Operator)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • Hutchins (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

02:21:25 (LIB 6654) Camp Brand, Brand, Germany, May 15, 1945. MSs, CUs, children of DP Camp Brand in open nursery school. Russian male civilians of camp in "close order" drill. EXTs, women wash clothes and prepare meals. MSs, camp buildings, formerly German Officers' School. CU, Russian flag flying over camp. 02:25:52 (LIB 6655) Nazi Atrocity Uncovered, Ratingen, Germany, May 13, 1945. CUs, bodies of eight German anti-Nazis, one woman and two Polish men, lying in woods (overexposed). SEQ: German civilians, former Nazi party members, prepare graves and rebury the bodies in a churchyard. MSs, local Catholic priest, Protestant minister, and US chaplain speaking at funeral services. CUs, townspeople filing past open graves and tossing flowers into them.

Subjects

  • GRAVES
  • GERMANS
  • FLAGS
  • DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
  • COOKING
  • MASS GRAVES
  • GERMANY
  • CHILDREN
  • CLERGY
  • WOMEN
  • SCHOOLS
  • FLOWERS
  • DISPLACED PERSONS (DP) CAMPS
  • FUNERALS
  • CORPSES
  • BURIALS

Places

  • Ratingen, Germany
  • , Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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