Gardelegen burial of Nazi victims
Creator(s)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
Scope and Content
(LIB 5954) "Murder, Incorporated", Gardelegen, Germany, April 25, 1945 Pan, graves of 1100 victims. MCU, Col. G.P. Lynch, Chief of Staff, 102nd Div. delivers speech which tells of the methods used to exterminate these victims -- the dead were burned alive in a barn set afire by military bullets and grenades. LSs, MS, US soldier translates the speech into German. MLS, MS, chaplain speaks of Nazi atrocities. Fast pan past graves to German civilians and military attending services.
Note(s)
See RG-60.4324, Film ID 2743 for more burial scenes in Gardelegen.
USHMM replaced the digital video file created from videotape in 2013 with a new 2K scan from 35mm in February 2020. The scans were made by NARA's Motion Picture Preservation laboratory as part of the Horizon 20/20 project: "Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age" - https://www.vhh-project.eu/en/.
Subjects
- GERMANY
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY
- CHAPLAINS
- GARDELEGEN
- CIVILIANS
- GRAVES
- GERMANS
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
- SPEECHES
- BURIALS
Places
- Gardelegen, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.