- Title: VM-1209
- Summary: THE CAMPS OF THE DEAD: INFAMOUS NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS - HOLOCAUST. GRAPHIC FOOTAGE ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY NAZI IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
- Description:00:55:55 - TITLE: "COLDITZ" - VARIOUS VIEWS MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN CAMPED BY ABANDONED TRAIN IN FOREST AREA. NAZIS DUMPED THEM HERE AND LEFT THEM HERE, AT THE END OF NOWHERE. "A CONCENTRATION CAMP WITH NO BUILDINGS". VOICE OVER, "MANY WERE ARRESTED BECAUSE THEIR RELIGION DID NOT PLEASE THE NAZIS. MANY BECAUSE THEIR RACE WAS DECLARED INFERIOR, SOME BECAUSE THEIR NEIGHBOR DISLIKED THEM, SOME BECAUSE THEY WORKED FOR THE UNDERGROUND, SOME BECAUSE THEY LACKED STABILITY, AND SOME FOR NO REASON AT ALL". 00:56:16 - SMOKE RISES FROM PEOPLE COOKING AT SMALL CAMP FIRES. MCU MAN COOKS IN SMALL PAN, OTHER DOING SAME IN B/G. MS TWO MEN CARRY EMACIATED ELDERLY MAN IN LONG OVERCOAT, TOWARDS CAMERA. PEOPLE SLEEPING ON ROCKY GROUND. GROUP INCLUDING SMALL CHILD SQUAT ON GROUND AS THEY EAT. SICK WOMAN LIES ON BLANKET GROUND, SHOWS AGONY ON FACE AS DISHEVELED MAN SITTING NEXT TO HER LOOKS AT CAMERA. BLANK FACE SHOTS OF MEN AT CAMP. ELDERLY MAN AND WOMAN MEND THEIR PRISON TYPE CLOTHING. OTHERS LIE AROUND STARING BLANKLY AT CAMERA. YOUNG BALD, SHIRTLESS EMACIATED BOYS (LIKE LIVE SKELETONS), EATING MORSELS OF FOOD. 00:57:09 - TITLE: "LANGESTEIN" - MLS U. S. SOLDIERS AND GERMANS FROM NEARBY VILLAGE LOOK DOWN AT DEAD BODIES IN HUGE TRENCH. VOICE OVER, "HERE THE GERMANS DIDN'T BOTHER TO CONQUER VICTIMS, THIS IS A SMALL CAMP ONE WHICH NEVER GOT ITS NAME IN THE PAPERS, BUT MEN AND WOMEN WERE KILLED AND TORTURED HERE MUCH AS IN PLACES OF GREATER FAME. CU PAN DEAD BODIES IN TRENCH (GRAPHIC). "ALL THE GERMANS WHO LIVED NEARBY WERE SENT TO EMPTY THE GRAVES. ALL THE GERMANS NEARBY HAVE BECOME GRAVE DIGGERS". 00:57:41 - GERMAN CIVILIANS CARRYING BODIES ON STRETCHERS LIFT EACH LIMP BODY OPEN OUT OF STRETCHER, PLACE IT NEXT TO MANY OTHERS. CU VARIOUS FACE SHOTS DECOMPOSING DEAD MEN. (GRAPHIC). 00:58:01 - TITLE: "OHRDRUS" - VOICE OVER, "THIS WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST TORTURE FACTORIES WHERE DEATH WAS TURNED OUT IN WHOLESALE LOTS". MS GENERAL WEISENHOWER AND OTHER ALLIED COMMANDERS AND SOLDIERS WATCH AS TWO EX-PRISONERS, STILL IN ORISON UNIFORM, DEMONSTRATE HOW PRISONERS WERE TORTURED. 00:58:18 - ALLIED SOLDIERS GATHER AROUND HUGE PILE OF DEAD BODIES ON GROUND. VARIOUS GRAPHIC VIEWS DEAD BODIES MAN SHOWING EVIDENCE OF STARVATION. MS LONG TRENCH WITH ROWS OF DEAD AWAITING BURIAL IN COMMON GRAVE. ABOVE PAN DEAD."CORPSES MULTIPLIED IN HORRIBLE GEOMETRIC PROGRESSION, EMPTIED OF ALL HUMANITY". VARIOUS SHOTS STARVING PRISONERS STARES BLANKLY AT CAMERA. SCHOLAR, SALESMEN, WORKER IN FACTORY?, GERMANS MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL". 00:59:09 - TITLE: "DACHAU" - DACHAU AND BUCHENWAL HEADED THE LIST, THEY WERE THE PRIZE CAMPS.......". LS HUGE STONE EAGLE HOLDING THE INFAMOUS SWASTIKA IN TALONS (SYMBOL OF NAZISM) SITS ON TOP OF ENTRANCE TO INFAMOUS CONCENTRATION CAMP. ALLIED SOLDIERS AT ENTRANCE. GI WALKS PAST LONG ROW OF DEAD BODIES ON SIDE OF PATH. MS GIS USE GRAPPLING HOOK TO LIFT DEAD BODY OUT OF CANAL AS CROWD INMATES WATCH FROM BEHIND BARBED WIRE FENCE IN B/G. MS GROUP OF BODIES REMOVED FROM CAAL. (GRAPHIC). PAN TO BARBED WIRE ENCLOSED CAMP BARRACKS. 00:59:46 - ALLIED DOCTOR EXAMINES EMACIATED WOMEN IN BED, LIMPLY LYING THERE, TOO WEAK TO RESPOND. "DACHAU CONTAINED THOUSANDS OF WOMEN IN CROWD WHICH SOMETIMES CONTAINED 60,000, A MASS CONTINUOUSLY RENEWED THE DEAD FACELESSLY REPLACED BY ARRIVAL OF NEW LIVING. "WOMEN'S SECTION OF THIS CAMP WAS DEVOTED TO SCIENCE, WOMEN SERVED AS GUINEA PIGS....". WOMAN'S BACK BEING TREATED BY MEDIC. CU TATTOO NUMBER ON ARM. MCU MEDIC EXAMINES WOMAN'S SPINAL CORD WHERE SPECIMENS WERE CONSTANTLY TAKEN FOR EXPERIMENTATION (GRAPHIC). "ALL IN THE INTEREST OF SCIENCE". 01:00:27 - VARIOUS SHOTS STACKS SKELETAL CORPSES OF DEAD MIXED IN WITH THEIR CLOTHING. PRISONERS WERE PUT IN CHARGE OF REMOVING CLOTHING FROM THE CORPSES. WHICH WERE GIVEN IN TURN TO NEW ARRIVALS. 01:00:52 - MLS OPEN DOORS OF OVENS AT CREMATORIUM, WHICH WORKED DAY AND NIGHT. GIS EXAMINE CLOTHES OF DEAD PRISONERS HANGING ON LINE, AWAITING NEW ARRIVALS. MS VARIOUS VIEWS OPEN BOX CAR DOORS SHOW PILES OF DEAD PRISONERS WHICH ARRIVED ON LAST DAYS OF WAR. THE PRISONERS WERE NOT GIVEN FOOD OR DRINK FOR 10 DAYS WHILE EN ROUTE TO DACHAU. CU PAN BODIES. BODIES SCATTERED ALONG TRACKS. CU MONTAGE FACE SHOTS OF DEAD. graphic. 01:02:44 - GERMAN VILLAGERS CLEAN UP SITE WHERE PRISONERS WERE BLOWN UP ALONG WITH MUNITIONS DUMP WHICH COULD NOT BE MOVED IN TIME DURING ALLIED ADVANCE. PAN SITE, MANGLED BODIES. BODIES BEING PULLED OUT OF WATER PUDDLE BY GERMAN VILLAGERS. 01:03:07 - TITLE: "BUCHEN WALD" - MEANING BEACHWOOD IN GERMAN. "AN APPROPRIATE NAME. BECAUSE GALLOWS WERE MADE OUT OF BEACHWOOD IN GERMANY". MLS ALLIED SOLDIERS WALKING ALONG PRISON CAMP. VARIOUS SHOTS PRISONERS, STILL IN STRIPED PRISON GARB, SIT AROUND. POSE, FROM BEHIND BARBED WIRE, WATCHING ALLIED OFFICERS ACCOMPANY INQUIRING COMMISSION OF BRITISH PARLIAMENT, COLLECTING DATA FOR TRIALS OF WAR CRIMINALS". VARIOUS VIEWS INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP SHOTS PRISONERS. CU FACE SHOTS, INCLUDE YOUNG KIDS, TELLS STORY. VOICE OVER, "HERE 5000 PRISONERS DIED EVERY MONTH, JEEPS WEREN'T MANUFACTURED MORE RAPIDLY". VISITORS PERUSE GALLOWS, INSTRUMENTS OF BEATINGS, AND THE CREMATORIUMS COULDN'T KEEP PACE WITH THE OUTPUT". VISITORS PERUSE OVENS. CU OVEN DOOR IS OPENED, REVEALS HUMAN BONES. FEMALE VISITOR INTERVIEWS PRISONER. 01:04:34 - MS GROUP CHECK OUT LARGE PILE HUMAN BONES. THEY WERE EVENTUALLY GROUND UP FOR FERTILIZER. CU PILE OF HUMAN BONES ON GROUNDS, PAN TO MEN WOMEN FROM BRITISH PARLIAMENT LOOKING AT THEM. CU MAKING NOTERS. MCU MORE DEAD BODIED WITH TATTOOS ON WRISTS. CU DISGUSTED LOOK ON FACE OF WOMAN DELEGATE. MONTAGE FACE SHOTS OF DEAD PILED ON EACH OTHER. 01:05:20 - DISPLAY ON TABLE OF SKIN WITH FANCY TATTOOS ON THEM USED BY WIFE OF CAMP COMMANDANT FOR MAKING LAMP SHADES, HER HOBBY. CU PAN SKINS. GRAPHIC. 01:05:38 - MCU GROTESQUE, PRESERVED, HEADS OF MAN AND WOMAN. VOICE OVER, "SOME OF THE "SS" TOOK UP THE SPORT OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS, AND WHEN TIME HELD HEAVY ON THEIR HANDS, THEY KEPT THEMSELVES BUSY PRESERVING HEADS". graphic. 01:06:00 - MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS BODIES SCATTERED EVERYWHERE, BECAUSE THE DEAD OVERWHELMED THE CAPACITY TO CREMATE THE EVIDENCE FAST ENOUGH BEFORE THE ALLIES ARRIVED. 01:06:34 - "TEHKLA" - "PANIC ALSO SEIZED THE NAZIS HERE". - MS PAN BURNED DOWN BARRACKS WITH CHARRED REMAINS OF DEAD. "THE DAY THEY LEFT, THE NAZIS SHUT 300 PRISONERS IN THIS BARRACKS AND SET FIRE TO IT. FOUR SURVIVED OF THE 300. MS FOUR MEN THAT ESCAPED THE FIRE POSE FOR CAMERA. TOGETHER WITH OTHER COMRADES, THEY SUCCEEDED IN DIGGING A HOLE UNDER THE FLOOR. ABOVE SHOT SURVIVOR SHOWS HOLE IN GROUND, JUMPS INTO IT. THEN SHOWS HOW HE AND OTHERS STILL HAD TO CROSS CAMP, AND GET PASSED BARBED WIRE, 4 WERE ABLE TO DO IT.THE OTHERS WERE ENTANGLED IN BARBED WIRE WERE EXCELLENT TARGETS FOR MACHINE GUNNERS AND FLAME THROWERS. VARIOUS VIEW DEAD THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT, SOME ENTANGLED IN BARBED WIRE. 01:07:52 - TITLE: "BELSEN" -VARIOUS ABOVE VIEW OF VAST FACILITY. VOICE OVER, "AT BELSEN 65,000 INTERNEES, AMONG THEM 25,000 WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE STILL ALIVE WHEN ALLIES ARRIVED". ALL THE JAILERS HAD NOT MANAGED TO ESCAPE, INCLUDING KRAMER, HEAD OF THE CAMP WAS TAKEN PRISONER". 01:08:00 - VARIOUS CU FACE SHOTS. KRAMER. MS GUARDS POSE FOR SHOT. MS "SS" WOMEN GUARDS FILE SINGLE LINE OUT OF BARRACKS. "THE FIRST WAR CRIMINAL TRIALS WILL BE FOR THE HANGMAN OF BELSEN AND HIS ASSISTANTS". COLUMN NAZI PRISON GUARDS, MALE AND FEMALE, FILE TOWARDS CAMERA. 01:08:42 - PAN INTERNEES GATHERED AROUND STAGNANT POOL OF WATER, FILLING UP CANS AND DRINKING IT, THE ONLY SOURCE OF WATER AT THE CAMP SERVED ALL THE NEEDS OF THE INTERNEES. TWO FEMALE PRISONERS (?) HUDDLE TOGETHER SPOONING WATERY SOUP FROM ONE BOWL. OTHERS ON GROUND DOING SAME. EMACIATED PRISONERS BARELY ABLE TO WALK. SKELETON-LIKE SURVIVOR SQUATS ON GROUND COVERS DEAD COMRADE. "EPIDEMICS FLOURISHED", FOR THE SICK THERE WAS NO RECOVERY, DISEASE WAS JUST ANOTHER WAY OF DYING".80,000 PRISONERS ARE KNOWN TO HAVE DIES HERE BEFORE ALLIES ARRIVED. 01:09:46 - PRISONERS WALK BY DEAD BODIES ON GROUND AS THOUGH THEY ARE NOT THERE. PILES OF DEAD. DEAD SCATTERED EVERYWHERE. (GRAPHIC). "WHEN ALLIES TOOK OVER, 800 PRISONERS CONTINUED TO DIE EACH DAY" PAN MORE OF SAME. 01:10:17 - WITTELGLADSBACH" - "ACCORDING TO GERMANS THIS CAMP WAS LISTED AS A REST CAMP". IT WAS INSTEAD A "TYPHUS" CAMP. VARIOUS SHOTS HALF DEAD STARVED MEN PRACTICALLY ALL BONES, LIE IN BED TOO WEAK TO MOVE. MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS OPEN GRAVES WITH SKELETAL REMAINS OF DEAD. MORE GROTESQUE, GRAPHIC SCENES.".....IT IS KNOWN THAT MORE THAN 700,000 FRENCH WERE SHIPPED TO THE CAMPS, AND ALMOST 200,000 OF THESE DIED THERE". 100,000 ARE STILL UNACCOUNTED FOR". 01:12:57 - MEDIC SPRAYS DISINFECTANT POWDER (DDT) ON BODY OF EMACIATED MAN AS OTHERS AWAIT THEIR TURN. CU SKELETAL FORM OF MAN TURNS NUDE BODY AS HE IS SPRAYED. MORE OF SAME. NUDE MEN ALMOST ALL BONES, POSE 01:14:48 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1945
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1209