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A British Royal Artillery officer, in charge of Belsen concentration camp at Lower Saxony, Germany speaks after liberation.

An officer of the British Royal Artillery, in charge of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany at Lower Saxony, Germany. The officer speaks after liberation about the conditions at the camp when Allied forces reached there. Seventeen thousand prisoners buried by them. The prisoners had no food for six days and they ate turnips. The officer informs about the cook house since organized at the camp. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibit 230.

Location: Lower Saxony Germany

Date: 1945, April

Duration: 1 min 12 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Speech of a woman doctor who was a liberated prisoner and in charge of female section at Belsen concentration camp in Germany

The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp of Nazi Germans in Lower Saxony, Germany after liberation by British Army during World War II. A woman doctor, prisoner and in charge of the female section, describes conditions of the camp. She indicates there were no beds, little food and water a day. Epidemics of typhus spread. No medicine available. More than a thousand died daily. Various gynecologic experiments performed on girls around nineteen years of age. Guards in the men's camp took out liver and heart of dead men and ate them. Food and chocolates distributed by Red Cross just before British forces arrived. Medical experiments included giving heavy Benzene injections to the prisoners. Women liberated from the camp stand around her. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibit 230

Location: Lower Saxony Germany

Date: 1945, April 24

Duration: 3 min 9 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Camp guards arrested and piles of tortured dead bodies moved for burial at Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany

The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany in Lower Saxony, Germany after liberation by British Army during World War II. Narrator identifies Nazi officer by the name Kramer, as the camp commander, who is taken into custody by British troops. Guards of camp arrested by British Army. Prisoners inside the camp starved and sick. Liberated woman weeps and kisses hand of a British soldier. Dead bodies of small children lie on grounds. Dead bodies of young women. Tortured and severely beaten dead bodies. Prisoner numbers tattooed on the arms of dead bodies. SS guards ordered to toss corpses in trucks. Immense number of dead bodies kept on open ground. SS guards toss dead bodies in a large open mass grave. German women guards at the camp walk out of a barracks, ordered to bury the dead. They drag dead bodies and throw them in a mass grave. A bulldozer sweeps piles of dead bodies in mass grave. Its operator covers his face. Pile of dead bodies swept into a mass grave. A US Navy signed affidavit of authenticity of the footage concludes the clip. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibit 230

Location: Lower Saxony Germany

Date: 1945, April

Duration: 6 min 4 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English