FILM EVIDENCE OF NAZI ATROCITIES: VARIOUS CONCENTRATION CAMPS Part 3

Description

Summary: Edited Subject. Pan, LHS, concentration camp showing buildings, barbed wire fence enclosures and guard towers. VS, inmates of the camp sitting and walking around. CU, sign on barbed wire fence "HOCHSPANNUNG, VORSICHT, LEBENSGEFAHR". VS, internees filling up pails with water, wash themselves, cook around small fires, eat, and clean pots and pans. MS, civilians beating German soldier. MS, picture of Josef Stalin on camp building. In fg arms are raised in Communist salute. MS, liberated prisoners pick up and carry American soldiers on their shoulders. MS, sign on building, "All Polish greet the fraternal American Army". American and Polish flags hang above signs. MS, liberated Polish, French, and Russian soldiers happily march to waiting trucks and climb aboard. Trucks leave camp as soldier. wave to other prisoners. LS, inmates of camp kicking German soldier. One man swinging can breaking windows in building. Excellent scenes, U S medics and MPs carry the sick and dying prisoners out of the camp. Emaciated man seated on ground is helped onto litter by U S medics. The man is crying and clasping his hands in thankful prayer. Pan, emaciated prisoners seated amid rubble. VS, liberated prisoners eating and talking. Ints, emaciated victims lying in barrackes amid corpses. VS, US medics lead or carry helpless prisoners from the building to waiting ambulances. Loaded ambulances pull out of area. Pan, MS, deformed legs of young boys as they stand behind barbed wire fence. MS, two American officers questioning worker and supervisor of crematorium. Seq: German civilians disinter bodies of concentration camp victim. Corpses lying outside of grave from which they have just been exhumed. Bodies are viewed by several U S soldiers. Seq: Leading German citizens and German officers are brought out to labor camp to view the results of the mass slayings. They view stacks of dead bodies and look at outdoor crematory. MS, CU, wagons filled with dead- bodies of victims. German civilians as they shake their heads in disbelief. MS, CU, German civilians viewing a table display of paintings and lampshades made of human skin. Various parts of the human body preserved in alcohol and two heads which were shrunk to one-fifth their normal size.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities