Footage of Free Prisoners; Human Remains; Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany Part 5

Description

1) LS crowd gathered around band playing in courtyard of Buchenwald Prison. 2) MS German SS man. 3) CS same - face is battered. 4) CS of another German SS man. 5) MS wife of hangman of camp (Mrs. Walter Warnstedt.) 6) CS of same woman. 7) CS Ukrainian SS man. 8) CS of same man. 9) CS of Hungarian prisoner (Max Diamond) 10) CS of Bavarian political prisoner. 11) CS of French prisoner. 12) CS of two French prisoners. 13) MS three French prisoners. 14) MS of French prisoner. 15) CS of German political prisoner. 16) CS showing number and red triangle of preceding prisoner. Reel triangle signifies political prisoner. 17) LS. American flag being raised at Buchenwald - lowered to half mast in honor of the death of Pres. Roosevelt. 18) LS German people entering concentration camp of Buchenwald. 19) LS long line of German Civilians entering camp. 20) Another angle of same. 21) MS showing lamp shade made from human skin. 22) MS showing preceding lamp - also other objects on table. 23) MLS showing group of German civilians gathered around table containing lamp and various jars containing bisected human organs. 24) MS American soldiers explaining objects on table to German people. 25) MS camera panning showing reactions of civilians. 26) MLS line of civilians circling preceding table. 27) Reverse angle of sc. 26. 28) CS German civilians walking around. 29) MS American soldiers directing German civilians. 30) MCS reactions on faces of German civilians as they file by camera. 31) CS camera panning along lines of dead bodies and various parts of human bodies at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. 32) CS German civilians marching by camera - showing reactions on their faces. 33) MCS photograph of wife of former SS commandant of Buchenwald. (Frau Koch) 34) MCS same. 35) MLS camera pans showing wreckage at Zeiss factory. 36) LS factory buildings. 37) MS interior of Zeiss factory (very dark).

Collection

Records of the Army Air Forces

Series

Motion Picture Films from the "Special Film Project" Program Series