UNWCC (United Nations War Crimes Commission) officers visit the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. Officers including Mr. Oldham from Australia, Mr. Staurvopolos from Greece, Wing Commander Hopkins from Canada, Lieutenant Colonel Hodgson from the US, Commander J. Latta and Lieutenant Prowse of Admiral Stark's staff arrive at the camp. UNWCC officers examine ovens used for cremation of victims. A pile of dead bodies of Jewish victims. The ovens in which the bodies were burned. Human bones inside an oven. A monument commemorating 51,000 Jews who died in the camp.
Nazi atrocities at Ohrdruf concentration camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. U.S. Army Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, George S. Patton and Walton H. Walker inspect the camp. The Generals inspect the scaffold and talk to prisoners. A woodshed is filled with dead bodies stacked in piles. The Generals view lime-covered corpses. Inmates demonstrate how they were tortured. Dead bodies are strewn on the ground. U.S. Congressmen also view the camp. A crude cemetery with charred remains.
Nazi atrocities at newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. A truck brings local townspeople, including Nazi party officials, who are forced to accompany the townspeople. Commander of U.S. 4th Armored Division Combat Command A Colonel Hayden Sears stands near Nazi officials. The visitors view dead bodies of inmates shot on the eve of U.S. arrival. Two slave labor bosses are shown at the camp. The Nazis are forced to go into a woodshed. Visitors view the charred remains of victims at a crematory near Ohrdruf.
German civilians at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany immediately after World War II. German citizens from the neighboring town of Weimar walk along the road to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. They are shown lampshades made of human heads and human skin parchment made for painting pictures at the camp. Allied soldiers stand around. German citizens see an Allied soldier with a trenchfoot injury. They look at a truck loaded with emaciated bodies.
Concentration camps in Germany. German civilians march towards Buchenwald concentration camp. They enter the camp grounds and view a display of parchments of human skin, lampshade made of human skin and two shrunken heads. A man shows them to the civilians. Trench feet of a concentration camp victim uncovered to show the lack of care at the camp. Bone ash piled up onto a truck as German civilians look at it.
Jewish orphans leave Buchenwald, Germany in a train at end of World War II in Europe, and following liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Jewish boy and girl orphans look out from the windows of the train. A Jewish flag hanging from a train window. Jewish children posing. Smiling faces of displaced Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and French, Jewish orphans. Close up views of faces of some of the orphan children and groups of orphaned children, survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Signs on a side of the train such as, "Vive Truman, Stalin, Churchill"; and "Orphaned youth of Buchenwald."
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