ID

FBW000630      Newsreel

Country / Year

USA, 1945

Original Title

Dachau Concentration Camp. Germany [01-May-1945 - 04-May-1945]

Produced by

US Army Signal Corps

Staff

Camera: [?]

Length

258,78 m / 9'27"

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 01 May 1945-04 May 1945: Shooting period

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: ohne Ton

Abstract

Dead bodies in railroad cars. Huge piles of discarded camp uniforms. Survivors unloading bodies from wagons in front of the cemetery. Survivors beeing sprayed with DDT. Survivors waving from behind barbed wire. Dead German guards in the foreground. Survivors parading in camp with flags of various nations and pictures of Stalin and Tito. Survivors figthing over food. Large pile of bodies. Sick and emaciated survivors wrapped in blankets.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Germany (1933-1945); American zone; Survivors of the Holocaust; Camps; Corpses; Crimes in the camps

Holdings

- National Archives, Washington, DC: 258,78 m / 9'27"; 35mm; 111 ADC 4480

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