Slave Labor Burials / Freed American Prisoners / Ransacking by Germans, Poles and Russians: Military Government Restoring Order Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 3963 DC 963-1 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1608-1610) Card 1 of 3 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 918' ea Silent LIB 5563 SLAVE LABOR BURIALS Nordhausen, Germany 13 Apr 45 VS, distorted cadavers lying in yard of concentration camp. German civilians cart them on litters to common burial grounds under the direction of US MPs. CU, emaciated bodies of victims. MS, charred human torso is placed on litter. LSs, head-on shots, German civilians carry shovels as they walk on highway. LS to CU, common burial grounds for victims of Nazi atrocities. German soldiers looking down into open burial pit filled with bodies. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps ADC ADC 3963 3963-2 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1608-1610) Card 2 of 3 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 918' ea Silent LIB 5564 FREED AMERICAN PRISONERS Grasleben (?), Germany 12 April 1945 MLS, happy, released American prisoners. MS, three released US prisoners stripped to the waist show their thin and bony bodies VS, released American prisoners waving to the soldiers of 117th Inf Regt, 30th Inf Div, passing in vehicles. MSs, LSs, liberated American prisoners kicking and throwing objects at German prisoners. The prisoners run past the released Americans with their hands raised. CUs, gaunt-looking US soldiers. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps ADC 3963 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1608-1610) Card 3 of 3 963-3 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 918' ea Silent LIB 5565 RANSACKING BY GERMANS, POLES AND RUSSIANS: MILITARY GOVERNMENT RESTORING ORDER, Nordhausen, Germany 12 April 1945 Seq: Liberated Germans, Poles, Russians, Italians come out of buildings carrying clothing and household effects which they have taken. Seq: Civilians are forced to stack stolen material in street. A Sgt with "SG" on his helmet directs the civilian looters to do SO at gun point. MSs, CUs, civilians, both young and old, carry booty in the street. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities