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Major Herman Walker of the US military and his subordinates visit atrocities at Hadamar concentration camp after World War II.

Hadamar concentration camp in Germany visited after World War II. Major Herman Walker and his sub-ordinates step out of a US military truck and move into the camp. Disease-stricken, weak and starved prisoners at the camp. Guards dig a common grave and pull out corpses of the victims of this concentration camp. Doctors and priests at the place. Guards make notes about the dead. Chief Warden of the camp interrogated by Major Walker. He shows a bottle of morphine, as morphine injection was commonly used to murder the inmates. Soldiers arrest warden.

Location: Hadamar Germany

Date: 1945

Duration: 4 min 28 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Head of the American War Crimes Investigation Team Major Voke examines emaciated patients at the Hadamar Institute in Germany.

Post-liberation views of Nazi atrocities at the Hadamar Institute in Hadamar, Germany towards the end of World War II. American officers visit the building where under the guise of an insane asylum 35,000 people were murdered. The visitors examine emaciated patients. Head of the American War Crimes Investigation Team Major Herman Voke leads the examination. In the graveyard attached to the institution, bodies are exhumed for autopsies. Men wear gas masks as they lift corpses out of holes and line up bodies. Major Volke list data. The head of the institute Dr. Volman and the head male nurse are questioned about the use of morphine before being led off to await a trial.

Location: Hadamar Germany

Date: 1945

Duration: 4 min 28 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English