ID

FBW001355      Newsreel

Country / Year

USA, 1945

Original Title

Paramount News // [No. 070 / 02-May-1945] ///

Other Title(s)

[Part 2: General Dwight D. Eisenhower General George S. Patton, and Others Visit A German Concentration Camp. Views of Ohrdruf, Hadamar, Buchenwald, and Nordhausen Camps], alle Beiträge der Folge, siehe Anmerkung

Produced by

Paramount Pictures, Inc., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Narration: Frank Gallop

Appearance

Dwight D. Eisenhower (General, Supreme Allied Commander); George S. Patton (General, Commanding General of the 3rd Army); Omar Nelson Bradley (Major General, Commanding General of the 12th arm); Walton H. Walker (Major General. Commanding 20th corps); Adolf Wahlmann (Ärztlicher Leiter von Hadamar); Karl Willig (Chefpfleger in Hadamar)

Length

303,6 m / 11'06'' (gesamte Newsreel)

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 02 May 1945: Copyright MP16041

Remarks

1. Alle Beiträge der Folge:
[Part 1: Delegates Arrive in San Francisco for the UN Conference] ///
[Part 2: General Eisenhower, General Patton, and Others Visit A German Concentration Camp. Views of Ohrdruf, Hadamar, Buchenwald, and Nordhausen Camps].

Abstract

Part 2: Dwight D.Eisenhower (General, Supreme Allied Commander), George S. Patton (General, Commanding General of the 3rd Army), and others visit a German concentration camp. Shows views of Ohrdruf, Hadamar, Buchenwald, and Nordhausen camps, including the dead in shallow graves, the Hadamar camp doctor and executioner, and the bone filled ovens of Buchenwald. Survivors tell their stories. Germans are forced to bury the dead at Nordhausen. Flashbacks show Germans burning books, celebrating, and persecuting Jews.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Book burning; Hadamar (Euthanasia Center T4); Survivors of the Holocaust; Mittelbau-Dora (Concentration Camp); Nordhausen; Ohrdruf (Sub-camp Buchenwald); Euthanasia centers (T4)

Holdings

- National Archives, Washington, DC; 35mm

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:
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (General, Supreme Allied Commander) and party arriving to view horrors at camp Ohrdruf
- Eisenhower accompanied by George S. Patton, jr. (Commanding General of the 3rd Army), Omar Nelson Bradley (Major General, Commanding General of the 12th army) and Walton H. Walker (Major General. Commanding 20th corps) to camera
- Eisenhower walking towards group of soldiers and looking at bodies of murdered victims
- Eisenhower talking to US officer
- Group of soldiers, Eisenhower, viewing whipping post
- Eisenhower listening to explanation from US lieutenant
- Patton (wearing helmet, with 3 stars) viewing atrocities, other military personnel standing around him
- Mass of murdered men and women
- Ohrdruf: Swastika, carved in stone (screen filling)
- Captured civilians, captured nazi officials and german officers lined up at slave labor camp
- US officer reading story of atrocities to nazi officials and officers
- US officer reading, panning down group of captured nazi officials
- Mass of dead prisoners, nazi officials
- Mass of burned bodies of prisoners
- Charred body in embers
- Soldier indicating to 2 captured nazi officials to enter shed where dead bodies are stacked
- Nazi officials entering shed. Nazi officer refuses to enter the shed and is pushed in forcibly by US officers
- Mass of dead prisoners stacked layer on layer
- German officer followed by other nazi official leaving shed
- Nazi officials leaving shed, showing by facial expressions and gestures their diagust
- Hadamar: Swastika, carved in stone (screen-filling)
- Graves of Poles, Russians, and Germans executed by Germans at Hadamar insane asylum (Euthanasia Center T4)
- Digging up graves of executed prisoners
- Grave diggers donning masks to protect them from stench of dead bodies
- Digging in grave
- Looking into grave as spade shovels dirt off body in grave
- Hauling dead body from grave
- 4 men lifting dead body out of grave
- Dragging dead body on ground
- Body of dead woman being hauled from grave
- Men carrying dead body of woman by arms and legs
- US officers questioning Adolf Wahlmann (Head physician at Hadamar concentration camp) and Karl Willig (Male nurse and official executioner)
- US officer showing bottle of poison used in killings to Wahlmann
- Bottle of poison
- Wahlmann talking
- Past Wahlmann to Willig
- US soldier with fixed bayonet ushers Wahlmann out of room
- 2 pretty scenes of the Rhine
- Rhine city
- German street scene with poster warning Jews
- Poster in German and English advising population boycott Jews
- 2 nazi storm troopers gesticulating at cameraman
- Night scene of Germans burning books in bonfire
- Germans burning books
- Nazis greeting priest down steps of church
- Nailing sign: "verboten" on church door
- Nazis entering classroom pushing nun out of way
- German soldier wiping definition of democracy off the blackboard
- Buchenwald: Swastika, carved in stone (screen-filling)
- Gate of Buchenwald concentration camp
- Ride shot into camp past released alled prisoners
- Prisoner type
- Type allied prisoner
- Man having deformed nose and only one eye
- Lifting blanket off corpse
- 2 dead prisoners, shirts drawn up exposing their stomachs
- Numbers imprinted on stomach of corpse
- Hand holding mallet with which the germans killed the prisoners
- Twin furnaces where germans burned their victims
- Hand opening furnace door to disclose charred skeleton of burnt victom
- Some prisoners. Russians carrying casket containing corpse of one of their members to be buried. They march out of gate
- Nordhausen: Swastika, carved in stone (screen-filling)
- Mass of dead bodies
- Dead bodies of prisoners
- Dead bodies of prisoners
- Skeleton-like figure of dead prisoner
- German civilians who were made to carry bodies and dig graves for their burial lifting one on a stretcher
- German civilians carrying dead bodies in blankets to graves for burial
- German lifts up dead body with pole
- Pushing dead body around with pole
- Carrying dead body on a stretcher to be buried
- 4 german civilians carrying dead body of allied prisoner hanging over two poles
- Dead allied prisoner, head hanging down and arms dragging along the ground, being carried off
- Corpse being carried by german civilians on two poles
- German civilians carrying dead
- 2 German civilians using paper to protect themselves, lifting dead body onto stretcher
- 4 Germans carrying dead allied prisoner by legs and arms, head down to camera
- Dead allied prisoner with battered skull, being carried past
- Dead being picked up and hauled away
- Germans lifting men onto stretcher who proves to be alive
- Prisoner still alive thrown amongst dead bodies
- Old emaciated prisoner found amongst dead gesticulating
- Several prisoners still alive lying on ground
- Down of emaciated prisoner still living, panning down to wooden boots
- Emaciated prisoner
- Several prisoners eating soup
- American medica carrying still living prisoner on stretcher to hospital
- Medics lifting old faintly alive man onto stretcher
- Emaciated prisoner on stretcher clasping hands and mumbling prayerfully
- Medics carrying prisoner on stretcher to ambulance
- Medics carrying prisoner on stretcher to ambulance
- Medic carrying helpless prisoner to waiting ambulance
- Looking into ambulance
- Women prisoners piling into ambulance
- Extremely thin prisoner being led to ambulance
- Extremely thin prisoner being led to ambulance, prisoner wears glasses
- Prisoner in prison garb making way to ambulance
- Prisoner in prison garb making way to ambulance, face haggard and drawn
- Stretcher with faintly alive prisoner being lifted into ambulance
- Ambulance pulls away
- Nazi flag
- German youth parading dissolving into scene of them carrying nazi banners
- Nazi youth drum corps playing
- Nazi boy, drum major
- Sticks beating drum
- Nazi youth, drummer boy
- Panover fanatical nazis waving and cheering from building
- Hands in nazi salute
- Nazi girls giving fascist salute
- Mass of nazi hands in nazi salute
- Nazi hands in nazi salute
- Mass of nazi youth parade by giving nazi salute
- Added scenes: Rescued US sodiers wave as tank passes