us-005578-irn1000177
type: RecordSet
date: 1944 September 15
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: Silent
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1000177
note: USHMM replaced the digital video file created from videotape in 2013 with a new 2K scan from 35mm in February 2020. The scans were made by NARA's Motion Picture Preservation laboratory as part of the Horizon 20/20 project:"Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Ag" - https://www.vhh-project.eu/en/.
scope and content: 01:07:44 (B-759) WWII Removal of bodies from graves and placement into caskets. CUs, bodies with hands tied behind backs. Pulling bodies out of graves. Wiping dirt away from bound hands. Foreign (Allied) soldiers and coffins [soft focus]. Prying off gloves from corpse hand with metal implement. Soldiers; graves. 01:09:45 (B-760) WWII INTs of gas chamber used by the Germans in the execution of prisoners. Demonstrating method of securing prisoners in gas chambers. Various CUs, pipes leading into room. Pan, wall surrounding concentration camp. LSs, CUs, Pan, three execution posts. ICU, rosary beads and masks. CUs, Pan, hand prints and scratches dug into cement wall of gas chamber by the victims. 01:14:08 (B-794) Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges in Belgium, September 15, 1944. VS, ext, Lt. Gen. Hodges in Master Tac HQ area. Hodges conducts Lt. Gen. Miles E. Dempsey, ERC 2nd British Army, through the area. CUS, Gens jeep and sedan. VS, Hodges bids farewell to Archbishop Francis J. Spellman.
title: Exhumation; Inspection of gas chambers; Lt. Hodges