Dachau crematorium and museum
Creator(s)
- Alexander Katlan
Scope and Content
EXT, Dachau camp. Sign displayed in front of Dachau's first crematorium, "This area is being retained as a shrine to the 238,000 individuals who were cremated here. Please don't destroy." Slow pan of camp buildings and large white cross marking the old gallows stand. INT, crematorium, ovens (overexposed). MS, sign in four languages: "Old Gallows Stand." EXT, Barrack X with crematorium and gas chamber. MS, wood platform, cross, coffin on gallows stand. INT, exhibition in the crematorium-gas chamber building (Barrack X) with life-size mannequins dressed in prisoner uniforms demonstrating torture and hanging. More INT shots of ovens (overexposed).
Note(s)
Original label on can: "Rhein River-Dachau"
Subjects
- TORTURE
- SIGNS/POSTERS
- MUSEUMS
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS
- DACHAU
- EXHIBITIONS
- GALLOWS
- CREMATORIA
- POSTWAR
Places
- Dachau, Germany
Genre
- Amateur.
- Film