ID

FBW000576      Newsreel

Country / Year

USA, 1945

Original Title

Atrocities at Dachau. Germany [2] [03-May-1945]

Produced by

US Army Signal Corps

Staff

Camera: [?]

Appearance

Alexander M. Patch (General, 7th Army)

Length

236,8 m / 8'39"

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 03 May 1945: Shooting period

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: ohne Ton

Abstract

Execution chamber with sign "Shower Bath". Piles of bodies. Horse drawn wagon removing bodies from camp led by German civilians wearing gas masks. Star of David. Jewish Chaplain. Services. Many inmates in tears.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Railroad stations; Dachau (Concentration camp); Germany (1933-1945); Gas chambers; Religious service; Survivors of the Holocaust; Crematoria; Rabbis; US Army

Holdings

- National Archives, Washington, DC: 236,8 m / 8'39"; 35mm; 111 ADC 4468

Materials

- National Archives, Washington, DC; Protokoll

Bibliography

- Fox, Stuart: Jewish Films in the United States. New York, NY: K.G. Hall, 1976
- 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:
- Interiors and Exteriors: Gas execution chamber with sign over door in German: "Shower bath"
- CU: Pile of bodies in room adjoining gas chamber
- MLS: Dachau railroad station
- CU: Sign on railroad station: "Dachau"
- CU: Sign on wall: "Quarantine, Typhus. This concentration camp is off limits to all civil and military personnel. By order of Gen. Alexander M. Patch, CG, 7th Army"
- CU: Christian altar in camp
- MS: Horse-drawn wagons removing bodies from camp are led thru streets by German civilians wearing gas masks
- CU: Star of David at ceremonial site
- CUs: Jewish chaplain signing autograph for survivors
- Seq: Jewish chaplain steps from jeep and is greeted by survivors. A survivor hands the chaplain a boquet of flowers
- Full screen view: Male survivors attending ceremonies. Several are in tears