Summary: Compilation of British newsreel items on German atrocities discovered during the Allied advance into the Reich.
Description: I. "In the Wake of the Hun" (British Movietone News, 22-4-45). General Eisenhower, with Generals Bradley and Patton, visits Ohrdruf concentration camp in Thuringia, watches how inmates were flogged and sees piles of corpses. Elsewhere emaciated British and Allied POWs, survivors from a 600 mile forced march, pose for the camera. Other liberated POWs include Canadian survivors from the 1942 Dieppe raid and Poles, Czechs, Yugoslavs and six Irish Guards freed by the Coldstream Guards.
II. (Pathe) Women slave workers display their tattooed identification numbers and coats marked with a cross. German civilians from the Gotha area are shown corpses at the Hadamar Lunatic Asylum. Three officials, Adolf Merker, Dr Wallmann and Karl Willig are interrogated on the spot by a War Crimes Investigation Officer.
III. (Pathe) Eisenhower visits Ohrdruf. Survivors from 600 mile trek.
IV. (Gaumont British News?) Eisenhower visits Ohrdruf. Germans are shown corpses of victims. Survivors from 600 mile trek.
V. Russian slave labourers of both sexes liberated. Tattooed arms and marked clothing. Hadamar. Survivors from 600 mile trek. (End of Reel 1)
VI. "Allied spearhead thrusts reveal German atrocities" (Universal News). Slave labourers. Gravediggers need gas-masks. Exhumation of Russian POWs. Hadamar. Americans fire Nebelwerfer against enemy and capture town.
VII. "Eisenhower sees for himself" (Universal News). General Eisenhower at Ohrdruf.
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:MGH 4693
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
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Production Date:1945-04
Production Country: GB
Production Details: British Movietone News (Production company)
Pathe (Production company)
Gaumont British (Production company)
Universal News (Production company)
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Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 2
Footage: 1299 ft; Running time: 14 mins
