Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT1 - Camp Compound & Survivors
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT1 - Camp Compound & Survivors
See catalog #534081 for identical footage w/German VO. Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT1 - Camp Compound & Survivors: Soviet Army documentary on Auschwitz concentration camp liberation. Footage contains graphic images. This version of the film was shown to English speaking veiwers.
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT1 - Camp Compound & Survivors
DO NOT USE: Title "AUSCHWITZ (OSWIECIM)" appears superimposed on CU shot of barbed wire. Trans. of German titles: "This documentary film testifies to the horrible crimes of the Hitler government in Auschwitz."
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT1 - Camp Compound & Survivors
Shot of women and children in winter coats walk toward camera (Polish laborers); at rt is barbed wire fence (but they're on the outside).VO is talking about people from all over Europe returning home. Then MS people inside fence walking toward cam; both men and women, most with coats or blankets wrapped around them, a few in the striped prisoner uniform. MCU 3 men looking out barbed wire fence. as VO says the Red Army has freed millions of doomed people and given them life. MCU a sick looking woman is held up by another woman prisoner. CU 2 young men. CU girl.
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT1 - Camp Compound & Survivors
High ang view pan on camp barracks; heavy snow. LS barracks seen through fence. VO lists several infamous concentration camps but says Auschwitz was the worst. CU elderly white-haired woman in coat, looking down. Pan across buildings at Auschwitz covered in snow. IG Farbenindustrie chemical plant "Buna Werke" area with various buildings many chimneys, railroad tracks This was one of the IG Farbenindustrie chemical plants set up in Oswiecim during the war, built by slave labor which cost the lives of tens of thousands of Auschwitz prisoners. Pan across buildings at Auschwitz. Aerial view of camp, the rows of prisoner barracks seem to go on and on forever.
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT1 - Camp Compound & Survivors
DO NOT USE: Blue prints of the layout of the Auschwitz buildings. CU map of Auschwitz II - Birkenau. ECUs of details of map, including Krematoriums. (crematorium) (These are designated on the map as Krematorium I and Krematorium II, but actually they were Kremas II and III; Krema I was in Auschwitz I camp.) CUs of technical drawings of crematorium.
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT1 - Camp Compound & Survivors
High ang pan on Auschwitz barracks.
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT1 - Camp Compound & Survivors
DO NOT USE: CU drawing for barrack.
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT1 - Camp Compound & Survivors
Interior of a barrack with women crowded into the 3 levels of bunks; old lady w/ cane walking past bunks. CU old lady.