| BELSEN More bodies are buried at the concentration camp, British troops burn barrack huts to ground. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7769 |
| Catalog #: | 509601 | |
| Clip Number: | 509601-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 1154 D | |
| Timecode: | 01:39:12 - 01:43:23 | |
| Location: | Bergen-Belsen, Germany | |
| Year Shot: | 1945 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FUNERALS: Mass Burials LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Germany MILITARY: Army, British MILITARY: Army, German WEAPONS: Flamethrowers WORLD WAR TWO, GENERAL: Atrocities WORLD WAR TWO, GENERAL: Concentration Camps WORLD WAR TWO, GENERAL: War Crimes | |
| Description: | BELSEN More bodies are buried at the concentration camp, British troops burn barrack huts to ground. Bergen-Belsen, Germany. Various shots of German soldiers (former SS camp guards) stacking naked skeletal bodies in mass grave. A British chaplain reads from the bible, while guards and British soldiers listen with bowed heads. The chaplain scatters some earth on the bodies and the men set about burying the dead. Crowd of British servicemen, servicewomen and German civilians watching as camp barracks are burnt to the ground. An officer gives a speech from a platform. Soldiers fire gun salute into air. Flame thrower tanks direct flames at barrack huts, in front of the hut is large picture of Hitler. More shots people watching. L/S charred ground where huts once stood. | |
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