Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Documentary Films. 1914 - 1944. ARDEANTINE CAVES [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Documentary Films. 1914 - 1944. ARDEANTINE CAVES [ETC.]

1945

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On atrocities. Reel 1, corpses of Italians executed by the Nazis are removed from the caves; last rites are given the victims. A funeral cortege for FFI dead moves through Paris. Shows a Gestapo torture chamber in the city; corpses of U.S. airmen in a field at Gambsheim; the removal of corpses from a cellar in Bande, Belgium; and last rites and burial of the victims. Reel 2, corpses are removed from a cellar in Stovelot, Belgium, and buried in a common grave. German civilians under guard exhume victims at Arnstadt, and bury corpses at Leipzig. Emaciated Hungarian women are evacuated from a concentration camp. Shows hospitalized inmates. Reel 3, Gens. Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton inspect the Ohdruf camp. Shows whipping posts, crematoriums, and corpses. Townspeople are taken on a tour of the camp. Shows emaciated inmates of Hadamar; corpses are exhumed and buried; autopsies are made; statements of prisoners are taken. Reel 4, inquests are held at Hadamar. Liberated Russian prisoners search garbage cans for food at Meppene, and raid food stores at Paderborn. Shows torture devices at Munster; prisoners are fed. Reel 5 shows corpses at Nordhausen; survivors are removed; victims are buried in a common grave. Red Cross workers feed Hanover survivors; bodies are buried. Shows corpses and crematoriums at Buchenwald. Reel 6, German civilians tour the Weimar camp. Shows parchment made of human skin, shrunken heads, and emaciated survivors.

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