ID

FBW000531      Newsreel

Country / Year

USA, 1945

Original Title

Buchenwald Concentration Camp [17-Apr-1945]

Produced by

US Army Signal Corps

Staff

Camera: [?]

Length

180,44 m / 6'36"

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 17 Apr 1945: Shooting period

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: ohne Ton

Abstract

Views of the camp with survivors and visitors walking around. Soldiers entering the camp. Picture of Joseph Stalin on camp building. Red Cross trucks with "Switzerland" on their bumpers entering the camp. Young inmates marching from the camp, many in striped camp uniforms. Two survivors taking bodies from hand truck to a pile of bodies. Views of the bodies. Emaciated survivors, one crying. Survivors behind barbed wire. Sign that reads: "All Poles Greet the Fraternal American Army." U.S. Soldiers viewing the dead, with shots of their reactions.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Liberation of the camps; Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Survivors of the Holocaust; Camps; Poles; Red Cross; US Army; Crimes in the camps

Holdings

- National Archives, Washington, DC: 180,44 m / 6'36"; 35mm; 111 ADC 4199

Materials

- National Archives, Washington, DC; Protokoll

Bibliography

- Gellert, Charles Lawrence: The Holocaust, Israel, and the Jews: Motion Pictures in the National Archives. Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board / National Archives and Records Administration, 1989