Clips of this unedited footage of Dachau were used in the film"Nazi Concentration Camp" which was shown as evidence during the Nuremberg Trial. See Story 840, Film ID 827 or Story 2440, Film ID 2273.
Atrocities at Dachau Concentration Camp
(LIB 6572) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. INTs and EXTs, gas execution chamber with sign over door in German:"Brauseba" (Shower Bath). CU, pan to ceiling, gas vents; two holes on wall. ECU, one gas"nozzle" CU, floor; bigger vent (against wall). MS, pan to ceiling pipes. CU, 2 soldiers (one looks mournful, one disgusted). Piles of bodies in room adjoining gas chamber. SLATE: Marthey. MLS, Dachau train station. CU sign on building wall"Dachau" CU, street sign with cut-out, low relief sculptures. US armed entrance/gate to camp; two story barracks in BG. Sign:"Quarantine. Typhus. This concentration camp is off limits to all civil and military personnel. By order of Gen Patch, CG, Seventh Army" CU, Christian altar in camp. CU, Mary and Jesus. CU, cross, altar, plaques. MS, horse drawn wagons removing bodies from camp are led thru streets by German civilians wearing gas masks. Passing train tracks and trains. View from behind, CU corpses. CU, man with gas mask leading horse. Seq: Capt. Rabbi David Max Eichhorn, Jewish chaplain of the US XV Corps, steps from jeep and is greeted by inmates. An inmate hands the chaplain a bouquet of flowers. Full screen view, male inmates attending ceremonies. Several are in tears. MS, crowd from behind, flags. WS, women, crowd. CU, prisoner at podium speaking. Well-dressed men along road; long procession of inmates; carts of skeletons.