An inquiry commission inquires into holocaust mass killings by Nazi Germans at Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland in World War II. Views of many passports and identity cards of prisoners from Poland, Holland, France and other countries. Closeup view of identity card of Homère Fonteneau from Charentais, France, born in 1922. Views of other identity cards including an Italian with first name Bruno, a Dutch man with name P. Janssen, a boy named Constantine and his sister, a girl named Irena Eleanora Peters from Poland. View of prisoners who survived at the concentration camp.
German troops with rifles and equipment march on a road in Warsaw, Poland during 1944 Warsaw Uprising of World War 2. German troops fire tanks. Soldiers fire machine guns from bushy area. German soldiers with panzerfaust anti tank weapons.l Explosions on ground. Soldier looks through binoculars. German Sturmgeschütz III (Stug III) Assault Guns firing. Russian tanks moving in distance. Close up views of destroyed Soviet tanks.
German Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 87 aircraft bombing suburbs of Warsaw in Poland during 1944 Warsaw Uprising of World War 2. German soldier looks at bombing raid from a bunker. Formation of German Ju 87 aircraft attack large buildings in suburbs of Warsaw. Explosions on two buildings targeted. Aerial closeup view of Ju 87 dive bombing intended target building. Massive explosion as building blows up. Fire and smoke and debris in the air.
The liberated Nazi concentration camp in Majdanek, Poland (also known as Maidanek) during World War 2. Surviving prisoners inside the barb wired fences of the concentration camp, near time of liberation by Soviet Russian Allied forces. Tattooed prisoner number on chest of a victim prisoner. Evidence of Nazi atrocities: Main chimney of crematorium. Ashes of human corpses that were burned at the camp. A group of seated German SS soldier prison guards, now POW, after capture by Soviet forces. Soviet Russian officials examine the clues from the concentration camp. Close up views of electrical sources and parts powering the barbed wire enclosures. Warning signboard on the fences. Guard towers and electrically charged barbed wire fencing. German guard pro-Nazi graffiti carved on a wooden fence post. Aerial view of large number of barracks in the camp at Lublin Poland, also known as KL Lublin. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibits 228, 229.
A map of Poland. German tanks and fuel are transported to the First Volksgrenadier Division at the Eastern Front. German soldiers on tanks are transported to the Eastern Front. The jeeps and tanks are loaded on railway tracks. Scenes of the Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw, Poland. Men march along the road in large numbers. Leader of the Polish resistance General Tadeusz Komorowski also called Bor-Komorowski or Bór-Komorowski meets the SS (Schutzstaffel) leaders including Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski during capitulation discussions. Polish prisoners of the Polish Resistance army surrender arms to German captors as they march under German guard. (World War II period).
Adolf Hitler visits German military officers, at a military hispital in Rastenburg, during World War 2. They were injured in the July 20th assassination attempt against Hitler. He visitis and speaks with: Major General Walter Scherff; Navy Captain Heinz Assmann; Rear Admiral Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer; and General Walther Buhle. As he leaves the building, women nurses outside, give Nazi salutes, and cheer him. Change of scene shows Hitler, at the Wolf's Lair compound, near Rastenburg, East Prussia (now Poland). Among those he greets are: Walther Funk, Reich Minister for Economic Affairs; Reich Minister Albert Speer; and Reich Minister Hans Heinrich Lammers, President of the Reich Cabinet. Next scene shows Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Nazi Gestapo, speaking with General (Generaloberst) Ferdinand Schörner. Hitler strolls with Hermann Goering, and is then seen, from behind, as he greets Reich Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels and General (Generaloberst) Heinz Wilhelm Guderian, Chief of Staff of the Army. The Nazi top leaders stand and converse. Goebbels speaks with Martin Bormann and General Alfred Jodl,who was also injured during the July 20, 1944 bomb plot against Hitler. (Jodl's head is bandaged.)
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