ID

FBW000536      Newsreel

Country / Year

USA, 1945

Original Title

Concentration Camp. Buchenwald. Germany [22-Apr-1945]

Produced by

US Army Signal Corps

Staff

Camera: [?]

Appearance

Francis E. Walter (Member of the House of Representatives, Pennsylvania); Eugene Worley (Member of the House of Representatives, Texas); Carter Manasco (Member of the House of Representatives, Alabama); Albert Rains (Member of the House of Representatives, Alabama); Henry W. Jackson (Member of the House of Representatives, Washington); Earl Wilson (Member of the House of Representatives, Indiana); Marion T. Bennett (Member of the House of Representatives, Missouri); Gordon Canfield (Member of the House of Representatives, New Jersey); [Herr] Vanier (Major General); Walter Mosmiller (Major, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces [SHAEF])

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 22 Apr 1945: Shooting period

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: ohne Ton

Abstract

Members of the US House of Representatives visiting the camp and viewing piles of bodies and the crematories. Includes Francis E. Walter (Pennsylvania), Eugene Worley (Texas), Carter Manasco (Alabama), Albert Rains (Alabama), Henry W. Jackson (Washington), Earl Wilson (Indiana), Marion T. Bennett (Missouri), and Gordon Canfield (New Jersey). Also includes ? Vanier (Major General, the Canadian Army) and Walter Mosmiller (Major, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces [SHAEF]), who was in charge of the tour.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Germany (1933-1945); Crematoria; Corpses; Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces; US Army

Holdings

- National Archives, Washington, DC; 35mm; 111 ADC 4283; 1. von 4 Filmen, zus. 313,03 m / 11'26''

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