Liberation of Auschwitz Reel 1 of 2

Liberation of Auschwitz Reel 1 of 2 Red Army / Russian newsreel footage - Jan/Feb45. Aerial shots Auschwitz concentration camp complex (aerials probably filmed 1947?) - snow on ground - rows of barracks, gas chambers, barbed wire fences - nearby town w/ industrial area? Small group of people among ruins. Women survivors trudge through snow away from huts and out of gate. Prisoners’ possessions spilling out of goods wagons into snow. CUs Yugoslavian ? female survivors. Skeletal bodies wrapped in rags. 03:12:13 Male survivors by fence; man wipes eyes and shows tattooed prisoner number on arm. Russian intertitles - scenes filmed by Ukrainian cameramen. 03:13:26 VS survivors out of camp. Barracks. Old woman coughing. AVs nearby industrial complex under construction - bomb-damaged IG Faben plant ? - and AVs Auschwitz. 03:14:54 CUs plans of Auschwitz inc. crematoria - statistics re numbers killed. Rows of wooden huts. 03:15:45 Women survivors in bunk beds inside huts. CU main gates w/ ‘ Arbeit Macht Frei ‘ motto. Electrical dials and switches - ‘600 Volt Raum Vorsicht Lebensgefahr’. Barbed wire fences - electrified ?Women in hut, three to a bunk. 03:17:05 Family photographs in album found in camp w/ pages turning - before & after imprisonment. Survivors behind fences - emaciated, shaven-headed, some wounded. 03:18:10 Yard littered with skeletal bodies - old woman and young boy walk among dead. 2819 survivors freed inc. 180 children - led or carried away from barracks; crowd of survivors towards and past camera - striped uniforms. MS women interviewed; helped out of camp by Russian soldiers. Woman on stretcher loaded onto cart by prisoners w/ Red Cross bandages. VS horse-drawn carts through gates. 03:21:10 Orphaned children in striped uniforms - all twins? - led through barbed wire enclosure by nurses. WWII. War Crimes / Atrocities. Winter. USSR.