ATROCITIES FOUND IN GERMAN CAMPS [Main Title]

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  • Title: ATROCITIES FOUND IN GERMAN CAMPS [Main Title]
  • Film Number: COI 3
  • Other titles: CAMERA REPORT ON ATROCITIES FOUND IN GERMAN CAMPS [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Film indicating the horrors discovered by the advancing Allies at thirteen concentration and prison camps.
  • Description: Ohrdruf: Eisenhower visits camp; punishment beating technique demonstrated; local civilians forced to view corpses. Ziegenheim: Russian and Polish inmates; one day's bread-and-gruel ration. Kaunitz: mass graves; prisoner's tattooed number; wounds treated. Holzen: condition of inmates. Schwarzenfeld: German civilians disinter bodies from mass graves for medical examination and "decent" burial. Göttingen: emaciated British POWs who "marched 900 miles from Poland"; two days' food shown. Hadamar: interrogation of clerk, commandant and doctor; exhuming bodies for examination. Arnstadt: tented camp for Russians and Poles; guard-dog's kennel; corpses of inmates. Belsen: starving inmates; SS guards (men and women) and Commandant Kramer under guard. Gardelegen: the barn burned by the SS to kill 150 people held inside as Allies closed in; the sole survivor. Leipzig: another fire massacre; corpses on ground, in wire. Nordhausen: living prisoners share bunks with corpses of dead fellow-inmates; survivors are carried to ambulances, civilians carry out dead. Buchenwald: survivors and dead; crematoria; visit of US Congress delegation. Map of Germany shows camp locations.
  • Alternative Title: CAMERA REPORT ON ATROCITIES FOUND IN GERMAN CAMPS [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: COI 3
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Production Details: Office of War Information, Overseas Branch (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Eisenhower, Dwight David (person) Kramer, Josef (person)
  • Keywords: casualties, German dead - civilian: [abuse] (object name) casualties, German dead [disposal] (object name) casualties, German dead [relics] (object name) casualties, German graves - mass (object name) prisoners of war, British - repatriation (object name) Germany & Arnstadt, Thuringia <concentration camp> (geography) Germany & Belsen, Lower Saxony <concentration camp> (geography) Germany & Buchenwald, Thuringia <concentration camp> (geography) Germany & Gardelegen, Saxony-Anhalt <concentration camp> (geography) Germany & Göttingen, <concentration camp> (geography) Germany & Hadamar, Hesse <concentration camp> (geography) Germany & Holzen <concentration camp> (geography) Germany & Kaunitz <concentration camp> (geography) Germany & Leipzig, Saxony <concentration camp> (geography) Germany & Nordhausen, Thuringia <concentration camp> (geography) Germany & Ohrdruf, Thuringia <concentration camp> (geography) Germany & Schwarzenfeld, Bavaria <concentration camp> (geography) Germany & Ziegenheim, <concentration camp> (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: 2 Footage: 1775 ft; Running time: 20 mins
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