Title:GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS ISSUE NO 1181 [Main Title]
Film Number:RMY 144
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Summary: "Horror in our time."
Description: Concentration camp scenes illustrate Churchill's words "What tragedies, horrors and crimes has Hitler brought to the world!" British MPs visit Buchenwald, see piles of skeletons and starved corpses, incinerators and cudgels. At Belsen, the dead and half-dead litter the ground while those able to move wander around and eat the food supplied by the British troops. "But for the Battle of Britain this might have been you". Camp Commandant Josef Kramer and SS women guards in captivity. Near Jena, Russians liberated by Americans take revenge on Nazidom by assaulting a German and smashing windows, while those still in the camp attend the funeral of a comrade. Local party leaders at Gardelegen exhume the corpses of 1100 massacred prisoners for decent burial. View of Churchill declaring "If Germany had tried to invade the British Isles ... what disasters and agonies might not have been our lot", then film of the continuing war: (a) capture of Leipzig. Mayor and family suicide victims; (b) capture of Nuremberg; (c) bombing of Lützow at Swinemünde; (d) assault on Magdeburg; (e) German POWs in camp.
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:RMY 144
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1945-04-30
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Gaumont British (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person)
Kramer, Josef (person)
British Army (regiment/service)
United States Army (regiment/service)
DE.S (regiment/service)
Keywords: ceremonies, Russian - event-related: funeral (object name)
combat, Allied (object name)
delegations, British international - political: MPs visit Buchenwald (object name)
law and order, German - liberation: concentration camps (object name)
prisoners of war, German - detention (object name)
ships, German naval - battleship: Lutzow (object name)
Germany & Belsen, Lower Saxony (geography)
Germany & Buchenwald, Thuringia (geography)
Germany & Gardelegen, Brandenburg (geography)
Germany & Jena, Thuringia (geography)
Germany & Leipzig, Thuringia (geography)
Germany & Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt (geography)
Germany & Nuremberg, Bavaria (geography)
Świnoujście, Western Pomerania, Poland (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 965 ft; Running time: 10 mins
