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Theater of Operations as well as the proceedings of the Nuremberg war
crimes trials.
V.2 U.S. Army Signal Corps films, listed below, are arranged by subject
(camp, displaced persons/refugees, liberator units) and film number and
identified by title. Length is given in time or footage.
Mauthausen
#111 ADC 3529 “War Crimes Trials–Nuremberg, Germany,” Jan. 4, 1946
(10.5 min., sound, b&w), showing Alois Hoellriegel being questioned by Col.
John H. Amen, describing his service at Mauthausen Concentration Camp
and visits paid by Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Baldur von Schirach, both of
whom he identifies as in the courtroom; testifies that prisoners were forced
by guards to jump to their deaths
#111 ADC 4311 “Concentration Camp–Mauthausen,” May 7–8, 1945 (6.2
min., silent, b&w) showing scenes of survivors mobbing a wagon of pota­
toes in the camp yard and eating spilled food, SS officers badly beaten by
survivors, and piles of emaciated bodies
#111 ADC 4319 “Concentration and Death Camp–Mauthausen, Austria,”
May 11, 1945 (10 min., silent, b&w), showing piles of bodies, emaciated sur­
vivors, SS troops pulling carts filled with bodies, German civilians digging
graves, general views of the camp, survivors cooking and eating around open
fires, and the crematory
#111 ADC 8571 “Mauthausen Concentration Camp,” U.S. Counsel for
Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1945 (11.1 min., sound, b&w), Prosecution
Exhibit #230, showing detailed views of the camp, including a scaffold and
crematory ovens; a surviving U.S. Navy prisoner describing his capture and
transfer to the camp; insignia of another naval officer who was gassed; meth­
ods of killing; bodies piled into stacks or loaded onto wagons; and emaciat­
ed survivors being bathed
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