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WWII - 1945, USA Documentary: Nazi Concentration Camps (Nordhausen; Mauthausen) R4 of 6

Reel Number: 300260

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL and SD

Year / Date: 1940s,1945

Country: Austria,Germany,USA

Location: Mauthausen Concentration Camps,Nordhausen

TC Begins: 01:00:10

TC Ends: 01:10:24

Duration: 00:10:14

Post-WWII - 1945, Germany: Liberation - Concentration Camps (Nordhausen; Mauthausen) Intertitle: Nordhausen Concentration Camp. High Angle / HA large number of bodies laying on ground. Concrete from destroyed hanger in 03Apr45 seen. US soldiers removing bodies on litters. CUs of dead on ground; survivor moving on ground among dead. Inmates sitting watching soldiers removing dead. CUs of hollow-eyed survivors. Emaciated man helped onto litter clasps hands in prayer. 01:01:35 Survivors eating hot soup. Soldier carries survivor in his arms into military ambulance; another limps to ambulance; others waiting. Two ambulances leaving. 01:02:09 German male civilians carrying bodies in blankets & on poles, dead on ground. Priest administers last rites for some of the 2500 dead as they are carried for burial. 01:02:43 Many townspeople arriving w/ shovels. US soldiers looking at filled burial pits. 01:03:05 Intertitle: Mauthausen Concentration Camp. HA pan over camp buildings; exterior wall & guardhouses. 01:03:32 CU of ovens w/ doors open. Soldiers w/ rifles surround guard . 01:03:53 MS SOF US Army sergeant Jack H Taylor identifies himself in yard surrounded by other prisoners talks about time in the military & capture in Austria & beaten, considered a non-POW. Tells methods of execution. 01:06:02 MOS US officer looking at bodies; MS of group of survivors standing behind bodies. LS of many bodies stacked in rows. CUs. 01:06:43 Inmates walking & looking thru high electric fence; CU of one. Two others sitting on concrete rim of well. Man leaning on door frame. Two thin inmates carrying third who is trying to walk to barracks, MCU. Prisoner washing / cleaning naked man beside water trough. 01:07:21 Column of horse carts / wagons between two rows of barracks; reverse view out entrance gate. MS body thrown onto wagon, rolls off onto ground; again picked up and thrown on pile of bodies in wagon. Other bodies thrown onto wagon by German citizens. Push cart w/ bodies & transferring to horse wagon. Piles of bodies. 01:08:24 MS Extremely emaciated young & older prisoners sitting looking at camera. Team of horses led pulling wagon w/ mostly covered bodies. LS of men around large burial pit. MS Bulldozer covering bodies. CUs Twisted forms of bodies stacked in burial pit, many w/ mouths open and flies on faces. 10:10:13 Naked emaciated man helped to walk; held up for camera w/ ribs showing. Post-WW2 Nazi Aftermath; Post WWII War Crimes Trial Evidence; Atrocities; Historical Film; Survivors; Dead; Brutality; Killings; Victims; 1940s;

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