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Go to HomepageReel Number: 300261
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940s,1945
Country: England,Germany,Switzerland,United Kingdom,USA
Location: Buchanwald,Erfurt,Munich,Weimar
TC Begins: 01:00:11
TC Ends: 01:11:50
Duration: 00:11:39
Post-WWII - 1945, Germany: Liberation - Concentration Camps (Buchenwald; Dachau) Intertitle: Buchenwald Concentration Camp. LS jeeps & army vehicles at the entrance. High Angle / HA interior w/ military walking across plaza area & barracks seen. Jedem Das Sein in ironwork on top of gate. 01:00:35 Jeep ahead of military truck w/ markings Red Cross Switzerland past; large number of young boys & others exiting camp. Men & boys pose standing; others in entrance to barracks . Blanket pulled off body on cobblestones, shirt lifted to reveal tattoos on stomach. Dead. CU of emaciated starved survivors 01:01:40 Men holding bread, reclining against building wall. Row of young boys standing behind barbed wire fence; boys sitting against building foundation. 01:02:15 Bodies stacked on ground. Soldiers stand near wagon loaded w/ bodies; CUs. 01:02:46 Iron weapon used by SS guard shown. Ext & int. of crematorium / body disposal plant showing furnaces / ovens. CU of manufacturer: J.A. Topf & Sohne Erfurt. Oven door opened showing bones. Pile of bone ash. 01:03:29 POV past MS of smiling well-dressed women & men from Weimar walk along road for forced visit to camp. HA entering camp plaza, thru entrance gate. LS & MS looking at parchment display on table of human skin lampshade, pictures painted on skin, shrunken heads & other souvenirs shown to townspeople. Fainted person carried off. Inspection of living quarters; prisoner w/ trench foot shown. People leave w/ handkerchiefs over mouths. 01:05:42 MS Wagon filled w/ stacked bodies, people walking past. 01:06:10 Intertitle: Dachau Concentration Camp. Aerial over camp of large buildings & barracks, many people walking down main street between rows of barracks. 01:07:00 CU sign: Zentralbauleitung Der Waffen SS U. Polizei Munchen Dachau. Main entrance gates. Interior w/ men & boys milling about; others emaciated sit wrapped in blankets, CU. 01:07:40 Railroad freight car w/ open doors & piles of dead, pan naked bodies. 01:08:16 Survivors out of building, sitting on wagon wrapped in blankets. Dead on litter; many bodies unloaded from wagon by other prisoners. Townspeople viewing naked dead. 01:09:16 Well dressed women come out of building crying. Large piles of bodies outside building; CU. 01:09:39 Rows of hanging clothes outside gas chamber. CU. 01:10:03 Soldier opens door, Brausebad (shower bath) above, to show interior of large gas chamber. CU of shower head-like gas vent. 01:10:25 Intake & outtake piping in control room w/ buttons & hand valve turned to control pressure. CU cyanide powder can. 01:10:48 Crematorium interior w/ furnace doors showing partially filled with bones. Naked men standing walk past camera, others laying on ground. Post-WW2 Nazi Aftermath; Post WWII War Crimes Trial Evidence; Atrocities; Historical Film; Survivors; Dead; Brutality; Killings; Victims; 1940s;