ID

FBW000535      Newsreel

Country / Year

USA, 1945

Original Title

Mass Murder. Leipzig. Germany [20-Apr-1945]

Produced by

US Army Signal Corps

Staff

Camera: [?]

Length

301,1 m/11'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 20 Apr 1945: Shooting period

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: ohne Ton

Abstract

Views of the camp where the retreating Waffen SS guards had herded sick slave laborers into a building, sprayed it with bullets, and burned it. Shows burned building, partially burned bodies, two escaped survivors, and a Russian woman survivor crying by the barbed-wire fence.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Survivors of the Holocaust; Camps; Leipsic; SS; Crimes in the camps

Holdings

- National Archives, Washington, DC; 35mm; 111 ADC 4052; 2. von 3 Filmen, zus. 298,09 m / 10'54"

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

Contents (detailed)

Shotlist:
- HSs: Burned building in concentration camp with bodies lying in the wreckage
- CUs: Two escaped prisoners from the camp
- CUs: Partially burned bodies entangled in electrified barbed wire fence
- CUs: Partially burned bodies in a shed and burned barracks
- MCUs: Russian women, enforced laborers, crying near barbed wire fence