Slave Labor Camp Part 1

Description

Signal Corps ADC 4272 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1719-1720) 111 ADC FILM: ARCH MP & APC MP, 1, 010' Silent 4272 SLAVE LABOR CAMP Flossenburg (?) Germany 30 April 1945 (LIB 6223) MS, CU, sign at gate of concentration camp: "Prisoners Happy Ending. " VS, electrified wire fences, guard towers and steel gates. Int, MSs, CUs, four naked, emaciated prisoners: two Jewish, one French, one Polish, with numbers tattoed on their chests. Seq: Former French prisoner in the camp conducts soldier through underground crematorium. MSs, prisoners working in crematorium carry out bones and ashes Record Group 111 from furnace and dump them in nearby pit. Accession III-NAV-210 CU, sign over crematorium: "Disinfection." LS, pan, barracks in large concentration camp. Seq: Brig Gen Milton B Halsey of the 97th Div inspects the camp. Seq: Soldiers and civilians digging up bodies of slave laborers, killed during evacuation of camp, when they were unable to continue march. CUs, bodies with bayonet and bullet wounds in head and chest. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY MS/es

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities