Footage of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany Part 5

Description

1) MS truck piled with dead bodies. 2) CS bodies lying on ground. 3) CS body - number tattooed on arm. 4) CS bodies on truck. 5) VCS camera pans showing different bodies piled on truck. 6) MCS body on stretcher. 7) CS body on stretcher - picture of Christ pinned to clothes. 8) MLS of gates to prison camp - Buchenwald. 9) CS French prisoner. 10) CS inscription over gate to camp. 11) MCS prisoner. 12) MS two prisoners in striped uniforms. 13) MS of prisoner showing emaciation. 14) CS same prisoner. 15) MS of another prisoner showing deformation due to extreme hardship suffered in camp. 16) MS prisoner being held up by fellow prisoner. 17) MCS prisoner. 18) MS four year old prisoner. 19) CS same child. 20) MS group of children who have been in prison a year and a half - they are singing. 21) LS group of prisoners around fire eating and cooking food. 22) MS group of prisoners cooking by the fire. 23) CS soup cooking in kettle - camera pans to include group around fire. 24) MS of elderly prisoners. 25) CS of prisoner praying - Polish. 26) MS showing barbed wire enclosure around prison camp - prisoners stand inside. 27) Same as sc. 26. 28) Another angle of same. 29) CS tattooed skin. 30) CS tattooed skin. 31) Same. 32) CS another piece of human tattooed skin. 33) CS book entitled "On a Question of Tattooing". 34) CU shrunken human head of prisoner, mounted on pedestal. 35) CS another head. 36) CS various pieces of tattooed human skin on table. 37) CS dissected human head in glass jar. 38) CS another angle of same. 39) MS various specimens of the human body preserved in alcohol in glass jars on table. 40) MS prisoners demonstrating hanging rope and club for bashing out brains. 41) CS prisoner showing noose. 42) CS prisoner with club. 43) CS another prisoner with club showing damage to club and demonstrating its use. 44) LS Buchenwald camp - camera shooting over searchlights.

Collection

Records of the Army Air Forces

Series

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