ID

FBW000561      Newsreel

Country / Year

USA, 1945

Original Title

Slave Labor Camp. Flossenburg. Germany [30-Apr-1945]

Produced by

US Army Signal Corps

Staff

Camera: [?]

Appearance

Milton B. Halsey

Length

312,42 m / 11 '25"

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 30 Apr 1945: Shooting period

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: ohne Ton

Abstract

Views of fences, guard towers, and gates, including sign that reads: "Prisoners' Happy Ending." Jewish, French, and Polish survivors with numbers tattoed on their chests. French survivor guiding soldier through underground crematory. Removing bones and ashes from crematory. Brig. Gen. Milton B. Halsey of the 97th Division inspecting the camp. Digging up bodies of those killed during the evacuation of the camp when they were unable to continue marching (bodies with bayonet and bullet wounds in the head and chest).

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Germany (1933-1945); Evacuations; Flossenbuerg (Concentration camp); French, the; Survivors of the Holocaust; Jews; Crematoria; Poles; US Army; Crimes in the camps

Holdings

- National Archives, Washington, DC: 312,42 m / 11 '25"; 35mm; 111 ADC 4272

Materials

- National Archives, Washington, DC; Protokoll