Falkenau subcamp
The Falkenau satellite camp was a satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Falkenau near Karlsbad (today: Sokolov) in the Reichsgau Sudetenland .
The camp was liberated on May 8, 1945 - the last day of the war - by US soldiers from a unit of the 1st Infantry Division . A day later, Captain Kimble R. Richmond arranged for a dignified burial of the discovered, naked bodies. Before that, he ordered a group of citizens and dignitaries from Falkenau to rescue and dress the bodies of the murdered. The infantryman Samuel Fuller , who later became Hollywood director, was ordered to film the entire process because he owned a 16 mm camera. The film is 22 minutes long.
Is the story of the concentration camp now part of the exhibition of the Sokolov Regional Museum in Castle Sokolov .
Movie
Samuel Fuller's war film The Big Red One , from 1980, ends with the liberation of the Falkenau satellite camp.
In 1988, the director Emil Weiss created the documentary KZ Falkenau - A lesson on human dignity , in which Samuel Fuller also appeared as a contemporary witness and made his 1945 film available to the public for the first time.
Web links
- Concentration camp film document - funeral procession of liars on Spiegel Online one day
- Falkenau Concentration Camp - A lesson on human dignity - Samuel Fuller testifies on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Directory of the concentration camps and their external commands Falkenau subcamp = No. 382
- ^ Rudolf M. Wlaschek: Jews in Böhmen . Munich: Oldenbourg, 1990, p. 153
- ↑ http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10006132