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)