Concentration camp atrocities
"Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans: "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism.] Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include: Ohrdruf: Eisenhower visiting the camp; demonstrations of torture; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; corpses; crematoria Ziegenheim: liberated men; a typical day's ration of food Kaunitz: mass graves; a woman's tattooed arm; wounds Holzen: men behind barbed wire; emaciated survivors Schwarzenfeld: mass graves; burial of corpses Goettingen: maltreatment of POWs; emaciated bodies; food Hadamar: interrogation/detention of SS guards and camp officials; exhumation/autopsies NOTE: The original use of this material was entitled "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey" or "Atrocities Found in German Camps" (originally classified "restricted").
- EHRI
- Archief
- us-005578-irn1002089
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- Hadamar, Germany
- Film
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