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Death Mills : PT2

Death Mills : PT2
Clip: 494040_1_1
Year Shot: 1946 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 761
Original Film: OF 19
HD: N/A
Location: Europe
Timecode: 00:09:27 - 00:12:59

Death Mills : PT2 - The English language version of War Department information film about the atrocities found at concentration camps after ally liberation. Film was originally shown to German citizens as part of the 'de-nazification' process.

Death Mills : PT2
Clip: 494040_1_2
Year Shot: 1945 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 761
Original Film: OF 19
HD: N/A
Location: Europe
Timecode: 00:09:27 - 00:09:59

Auschwitz survivors: var shots of Soviet doctors examining survivors at hospital, malnourished men, women and children seen.

Death Mills : PT2
Clip: 494040_1_3
Year Shot: 1945 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 761
Original Film: OF 19
HD: N/A
Location: Europe
Timecode: 00:09:59 - 00:10:40

Several MSs of Allied leaders touring unidentified concentration camps. Ohrdruf: Elevated GV of General Eisenhower touring camp. MCU Eisenhower. MS inmate stretched over table, showing Eisenhower how they were tortured. GV Eisenhower touring camp, several corpses are seen in FG. (also see catalog #494003 for identical & related footage of Eisenhower's Tour.) MS/MCUs as the Archbishop of Canterbury tours an unidentified camp.

Death Mills : PT2
Clip: 494040_1_4
Year Shot: 1945 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 761
Original Film: OF 19
HD: N/A
Location: Europe
Timecode: 00:10:40 - 00:11:12

GV/MS/CU Civilians from the Allied Investigation Commission touring camp, they came to authenticate the atrocities, team is seen walking through camp, examining barracks, various stacks of bodies.

Death Mills : PT2
Clip: 494040_1_5
Year Shot: 1945 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 761
Original Film: OF 19
HD: N/A
Location: Europe
Timecode: 00:11:12 - 00:11:48

GV/MS/CU Civilians from the Allied Investigation Commission touring camp, they came to authenticate the atrocities, team is seen walking through camp, examining barracks, various stacks of bodies. Shots of the group going into crematorium. Shots of ovens etc. Narrator mistakenly says the people died by burning in furnaces - although there may have been isolated instances of this, usually the ovens were used for cremating corpses.

Death Mills : PT2
Clip: 494040_1_6
Year Shot: 1945 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 761
Original Film: OF 19
HD: N/A
Location: Europe
Timecode: 00:11:48 - 00:12:24

Interior MS very clinical looking torture chamber in Maidanek. MS rubber gloves on a table. MS/CU guillotine. View form guard tower w/machine gun pointed at barracks. Interior MS w/doors leading to gas chambers. MCU as soldier opens door of gas chamber w/ sign "Brausebad" (Shower). Shots inside the gas chamber: MS/CU fake shower heads mounted on ceiling. MS grating over an opening. MS Pipes and controls for the gas. MS/CU canisters of Zyklon B, the poison that was used. CU man's gloved hand shows how gas was released through "shower head". MS stack of bodies.

Death Mills : PT2
Clip: 494040_1_7
Year Shot: 1945 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 761
Original Film: OF 19
HD: N/A
Location: Europe
Timecode: 00:12:24 - 00:12:59

Exterior MLS gas chamber w/barbed wire in FG. Interior GV people touring gas house. MCU sign on door. Interior GV gas chamber. CUs containers of the "death gas" Zyklon. Exterior GV tall chimney of crematorium building. Shots panning rows of ovens. MCU bone fragments in oven. MS bone fragments in box (narrator says remains were ground up and sold as fertilizer.)