us-005578-irn1002089
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date: 1945 June 15
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has or had subject: 851
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identifier: irn1002089
note: See Film ID 158 for"German Concentration Camps Factual Surve"
scope and content: "Welt im Fil": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans:"Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus" [That is fascism, that is Nazism.] Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include: Ohrdruf: Eisenhower visiting the camp; demonstrations of torture; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; corpses; crematoria Ziegenheim: liberated men; a typical day's ration of food Kaunitz: mass graves; a woman's tattooed arm; wounds Holzen: men behind barbed wire; emaciated survivors Schwarzenfeld: mass graves; burial of corpses Goettingen: maltreatment of POWs; emaciated bodies; food Hadamar: interrogation/detention of SS guards and camp officials; exhumation/autopsies NOTE: The original use of this material was entitled"German Concentration Camps Factual Surve" or"Atrocities Found in German Camp" (originally classified"restricte").
title: Concentration camp atrocities