Namering 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 6745) Mass murder burial, Namering(?), Germany, May 19, 1945 SEQ: A woman and two children walking in field; woman searching in ruins, holding up bits of burned clothing and bones. CUs, woman and children. SEQ: Burial of slave laborers exhumed from mass graves. German civilians nail wooden coffins, load them on wagons, lower coffins into graves. Men and women shovel dirt over coffins in graves. MS, German woman placing wreath on rough wooden cross. LS, German children throw flowers into open grave; one of the children spits into the grave. LS, priest holds large cross while his assistant swings a censer.
Subjects
- GERMANY
- RELIGIOUS SERVICES
- CHAPLAINS
- CORPSES
- BURIALS
- CHILDREN
- ATROCITIES
- GRAVES
- MASS GRAVES
- CIVILIANS
- GERMANS
- PRIESTS
- EXHUMATIONS
Places
- Namering, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.