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Go to HomepageReel Number: 300258
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940s,1945
Country: Germany,USA
Location: Gotha,Hadamar,Ohrdruf Concentration Camp
TC Begins: 01:00:17
TC Ends: 01:09:55
Duration: 00:09:38
Post-WWII - 1945, Germany: Liberation - Concentration Camps (Ohrdruf; Hadamar) Intertitle: Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. 01:00;25 Inmates walking along camp street. MS Prisoners posing. MCU, MLS Walking w/ liberating troops led by Gen. Eisenhower, Generals Bradley & Patton. 4th Armored Div. of Patton’s 3rd Army liberated camp. Rack used in whipping inmates explained by inmate (MOS). Woodshed w/ lime-covered bodies stacked, CUs of bodies & Generals viewing inmates showing how they were tortured. Many bodies on ground, MCU & CUs. 01:02:18 Crematory: grill made of railroad tracks w/ charred remains, CU generals looking & talking. 01:02:43 Column of army trucks w/ townspeople entering camp, along w/ Nazi party members who are tken on force tour by Col. Hayden Sears of 4th Armored Div. German Medical Major accompanies. Viewing bodies of prisoners shot day before liberation; two Forced Labor bosses presented. Sears forces Germans to enter woodshed with bodies, exit holding noses. Labor bosses enter at rifle point. Nazis talking to officers. 01:05:07 Group to crematory & list of atrocities read to them. CU of bodies. 01:05:48 Intertitle: Hadamar. Jeep arrives at entrance beneath US flag. Major Herman Boelke & others of War Crimes Investigation Team / WCIT enter & examine survivors, some extremely starved. MCUs. 01:07:07 LS graveyard & exhumation of bodies for autopsies. Digging by hand while wearing breathing masks; removing bodies, some naked, some w/ clothes. Corpses lined up on ground. Major Boelke performing the autopsy and two soldiers record data & take picture. CU soldier w/ pipe writing notes. 01:08:54 Int. officers & interpreter at table as facility director Dr. Waldman & Karl Willie, chief male nurse, brought in for interrogation. CU hold bottle. MCU of Waldman & Willie being interviewed, then removed to await trial. Post-WW2 Nazi Aftermath; Post WWII War Crimes Trial Evidence; Atrocities; Historical Film; Survivors; Dead; Brutality; Killings; Victims; 1940s;