Namering burial of slave laborers

Identifier
irn1003770
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.712.1
  • RG-60.4317
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • WG Snowden (Camera Operator)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference

Scope and Content

(LIB 6744) Atrocities, Namering and Eging(?), Germany, May 19, 1945 SEQ: German civilians load and unload wood coffins of 800 Allied slave laborers from carts; hammering covers on coffins. MCUs, several corpses in open coffins covered with insects. SEQ: Catholic ceremony for the dead. SEQ: German civilians place coffins in huge pit.

Subjects

  • ALLIES
  • GERMANS
  • CIVILIANS
  • MASS GRAVES
  • COFFINS
  • PRIESTS
  • RELIGIOUS SERVICES
  • CORPSES
  • GERMANY
  • ATROCITIES

Places

  • Namering, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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