Scenes at the recently liberated Nazi German Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany, near the end of World War II in Europe. Aerial views of the Dachau Concentration Camp showing barracks, grounds, perimeter fencing, and various buildings. The main entrance gate of the camp. Views of some of the surviving liberated inmates from Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France and Holland. Many of the survivors are starved and emaciated. View of a railroad train car that had arrived at the camp, carrying prisoner victims, with more of them dead than alive in the packed train car. Corpses lie inside an open door of a prison train box car. Bodies of victims under a blanket of snow in an open top train car. Some surviving liberated prisoners move piled bodies of dead victims from carts to prepare them for burial.
Dead bodies of prisoners at the Nazi Dachau Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany immediately after the conclusion of World War II in Europe. Local town people view the piles of emaciated dead bodies stacked inside a building. Women cry and walk out of the building after viewing heaps of dead bodies of atrocity victims. A tour of a gas chamber shows an Allied soldier entering a shower bath area. Dummy shower heads, intake and outlet pipes, inflow and outtake gas valves in the gas chamber. Bodies in a crematory after removal from the gas chamber. Survivors of the Dachau camp.
Excerpts from 24 August, 1945 (World War II) military commission tribunal in Dachau. Swearing in of translator and charges read against Franz Strasser for: "Violation of the Laws and Usages of War. In that on or about 9 December 1944, FRANZ STRASSER, Kreisleiter of Kreis Kaplitz, an Austrian National, did at or near Kaplitz, Czechoslovakia, wrongfully and unlawfully kill an American airman, whose name, rank and serial number are unknown, [by shooting him with a machine pistol]. Strasser replies with a plea of not guilty. Next scene shows entry of German civilian truck driver, Josef Pusch, who is sworn in and provides testimony about the incident. Pusch describes the events of the shooting of the American prisoners by Strasser. United States flag and judges on raised platform. U.S. officials, defendants and civilians in the court room. Shows hearing as it begins. The Nazi commandant seated with other officials. The German civilian is questioned by an interpreter. German civilian Pusch identifies Strasser. Pusch gives his account to the tribunal about the shooting of the American flyers.
Dachau concentration camp in Germany, after liberation in final days of World War 2. Sign on railroad station building 'Dachau'. Free standing corner post decorated with figures on top, showing three German soldiers in one direction and a German soldier pointing two German musicians in the other direction. One musician has a bass fiddle on his back and carries a folded umbrella. The other carries an accordion. Sign on the entrance to the Concentration Camp: 'Quarantine, Typhus. This concentration camp is off limits to all civil and military personnel. By order of General Patch, CG, Seventh Army'. Christian altars with Mother Mary, a monstrance, and an altar card at the concentration camp. Pile of dead bodies of victims of Nazi atrocities carried in horse carts by German civilians wearing gas masks.
A Nazi concentration camp in Dachau in Germany. Funeral ceremony for victims of the camp. Star of David at a ceremonial site. U.S. Army chaplain (Rabbi) Captain David Max Eichhorn, steps out of a jeep and is greeted by inmates. Male inmates attend funeral services. Inmates in tears. One inmate speaks . Flags behind the ceremonial place.
Removal of bodies from Dachau concentration camp after Allied liberation in World War II. Funeral ceremony of the victims of the camp. Civilian men walking in front of horse carts carrying dead bodies. Carts carry dead bodies for a funeral ceremony. Piles of dead bodies in some of the carts are covered by clothes. Several carts on the road.