ID

FBW000873      Newsreel

Country / Year

USA, 1945

Original Title

Senators Visit Dachau and Munich. Germany [25-May-1945]

Produced by

US Army Signal Corps

Staff

Camera: [?]

Appearance

Ernest MacFarlane (Senator Ernest MacFarlane (Arizona)); Burton K. Wheeler (Senator Burton K. Wheeler (Montana))

Length

203 m / 7'25''

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 25 May 1945: Shooting period

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: ohne Ton

Abstract

Senators Burton K. Wheeler of Montana and Ernest MacFarlane of Arizona with U.S. Army and Navy officers. Group talking with survivors. Emaciated survivors being carried from a building. Senators being sprayed with disinfectant powder. A survivor demonstrating how four U.S.soldiers were shot.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Dachau (Concentration camp); Disinfection; Survivors of the Holocaust; Camps; Navy; Munich; Soldiers; US Army

Holdings

- National Archives, Washington, DC: 203 m / 7'25''; 35mm; 111 ADC 4525

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