PRISONERS DESTROYED ENEMY VEHICLES, WIENRODE (?), GERMANY ; "MURDER INC", GARDELEGEN, GERMANY ; "MASS MURDER", LEIPZIG, GERMANY ; Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 4052 052-1 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1664-1665) Card 1 of 4 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 988¹ ea Silent LIB 5906 PRISONERS DESTROYED ENEMY VEHICLES Wienrode (?) Germany 19 April 1945 LS, 2,000 or more prisoners taken in the town of Wienrode. CUs, bodies of German soldiers, some burned and mutilated, in and around shelled and burning convoy. CUs, smoldering tractors, tanks and trucks. VS, German prisoners assembled in field and marching along road. CUs, exhausted prisoners lying in woods, sleeping and resting. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps ADC 4052 052-2 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1664-1665) Card 2 of4 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 988' ea Silent LIB 5907 "MURDER INC" Gardelegen, Ger 22 Apr 45 HSs, long line of German civilians carrying grave markers and shovels leaves village. VS, German civilians burying murdered prisoners who were burned to death. VS, German civilians, carrying bodies in cemetery. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 NOTE; This story ties in with ADC 4051 and 4059. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/ es Signal Corps 052-3 ADC 4052 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1664-1665) Card 3 of 4 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 988' ea Silent LIB 5908 " MASS MURDER = Leipzig, Germany 20 Apr 45 HSs, burned building in concentration camp with bodies lying in the wreckage. CUs, two escaped prisoners from the camp. CUs, partially burned bodies entangled in electrified barbed wire fence. CUs, partially burned bodies in a shed and burned barracks. MCUs, Russian women, enforced laborers, crying near barbed wire fence. (Summary: A detachment from the Leipzig concentration camp was assigned work in the nearby aircraft factory. When the US invasion of the city was imminent, the Waffen SS guards prepared to leave the city. Those prisoners who were in good physical condition were evacuated. The sick were told to assemble in the mess hall. From 300 to 400 were crowded into the mess hall and were told they were going to eat. As soon as the building was closed the SS troops sprayed it with machine gun fire. They had saturated the wooden building with kerosene and then set it afire. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps DC ADC 4052 052-4 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1664-1665) Card 4 of4 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 988' ea Silent LIB 5908 "MASS MURDER" (Cont'd) Leipzig, Ger 20 April 1945 (Cont'd) The Germans also threw hand grenades into the flaming building. Many prisoners scrambled out of the building. The only way of escape was over a high wire electrified fence and across a large field. Somehow many of them got over the fence only to be shot down by machine gun fire. About 100 escaped. The prisoners were political prisoners from Russia, Poland, and France. ) Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 NOTE: This story ties in with ADC 4059. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities