Patton & Russians; Volary burial of Nazi victims
Creator(s)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- A. Statt (Camera Operator)
- O.S. Hallberg (Camera Operator)
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
Scope and Content
(LIB 6688) Patton and Russians, Regensburg, Germany and Linz, Austria, May 14, 1945 MSs, Gen. George S. Patton and staff entering plane at Regensburg. MS, Gen. Patton greeted by Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker at Linz airport. MSs, CUs, Patton and Walker talking to news correspondent Doris Duke Cromwell. VAR, Patton and Russian Marshal Tolbuhkin at his heaquarters. Patton and Tolbuhkin reviewing Russian troops. MSs, Patton and Walker receiving medals from Tolbuhkin. (LIB 6689) Atrocities, Volary, Czechoslovakia, May 13, 1945 MS, CU, bodies of Jewish women in mass grave. SEQ: German civilians remove bodies from mass grave, place them in coffins and rebury them in cemetery. Germans walking past bodies lying in open coffins. MSs, survivors from women's concentration camps. LSs, MSs, Jewish chaplain of the 5th Inf. Div. conducting funeral services.
Note(s)
Unrelated material precedes this story from TC 01:00:00-01:10:40 on USHMM Film ID 2741. The USHMM ordered NARA 111 ADC 1781 - (LIB 6104) Burial of Nazi Victims, Solingen, Germany, May 1, 1945. A different ADC reel was transferred. Cannot identify original archive number, but footage was shot in 1945 in Manila, Philippines. LH 05/19/05
Subjects
- CHAPLAINS
- AUSTRIA
- AIRPORTS
- CIVILIANS
- GERMANS
- CEMETERIES
- CZECHOSLOVAKIA
- EXHUMATIONS
- WOMEN
- RABBIS
- ATROCITIES
- AWARDS
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET)
- FUNERALS
- GERMANY
- PATTON, GEORGE
- RELIGIOUS SERVICES (JEWISH)
- BURIALS
- SURVIVORS
- MASS GRAVES
Places
- Volary, Czechoslovakia
- Linz, Austria
- Regensburg, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.