ID

FBW002700      Newsreel

Country / Year

USA, 1945

Original Title

Concentration Camp. Nordhausen. Germany [12-Apr-1945]

Produced by

US Army Signal Corps

Staff

Camera: [?]

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 12 Apr 1945: Shooting period

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: ohne Ton

Abstract

German civilians cart corpses to burial ground. Mutilated bodies lying on the ground. A Catholic chaplain conducting rites for the dead at an altar set up on the hood of a jeep. Medics helping the old and sick into ambulances and trucks. A survivor eating with a pot between his legs and talking with soldiers. Close shots mutilated sections of bodies.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Germany (1933-1945); Survivors of the Holocaust; Mittelbau-Dora (Concentration Camp); Nordhausen; Nordhausen (Sub-camp Buchenwald); US Army

Holdings

- National Archives, Washington, DC; 35mm; 111 ADC 3964; 2. von 2 Filmen, zus. 222,2 m / 8'07''

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