Munster concentration camp for Belgian prisoners during World War II. The buildings, prisons in the compound of this camp. Man gives a demonstration of torturing methods adopted by the Nazi German guards at the camp. A man tied from arms with a pole and then beaten with a barbed wire wrapped stick. Another man bound by chains and barbed wires and beaten. Impressions of chains and barbed wires on the prisoners. Use of a screw driven two part pressing device to crush the hands and fingers of a prisoner. Survivors show scars of repeated beatings and tortures. Wounds of beating and cigarette burns on thighs and lower body portions of Belgian men and women liberated from the prison camp.
Nordhausen concentration camp used as slave labor camp by the Nazis during World War II. The camp after Allied forces arrive. Corpses lying all over the ground. More dead bodies kept under miserable conditions. The leaned, starved and brutally tortured dead bodies full of wounds and scars. Allied soldiers and Red Cross men take survivors for relief and medical aid to Allied hospitals. Most of them are too weak to move. Weeping inmates eat food. Seriously injured carried in ambulances. More dead bodies, all brutally killed. German civilians carry dead bodies. Civilians move with shovels to dig common graves and mass burials of the 2500 victims of this camp. Dead bodies in mass graves.
Hanover concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II. Allied forces arrive at the camp. Inmates given food and clothes by Allied soldiers. Inmates lined for soup. Leaned starved inmates eat the soup, some of them weep. Inmates too weak to stand or move, lying sick inside their barracks. Men take out dead bodies from the barracks. A Sergeant of the AMG (Allied Military Government) checks the list and the inmates at the camp. Photographs of starved and tortured inmates taken.
The Buchenwald concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II. Red Cross trucks and relief from Switzerland reach the concentration camp. Among the 2000 survivors of this camp, almost a 1000 are children; boys of age fourteen or less. The weak, starved and tortured inmates from various European countries, at the camp. Old men and children at the camp. Stacks of dead bodies at crematory, in a truck and at the experimental building. All have prisoner number and nationality tattooed on their stomach. A club weapon used for torturing. Crematory ovens with bones and remains of dead inside the ovens. 1200 civilians of a town Weimar nearby the camp sent on a forced tour of the camp. A group of smiling civilians, men and women walk towards the camp. Civilians enter the camp and see the display of articles made of human skin. Lampshades, paintings and articles of human skin and bones. Human heads shrunk to one fifth of their normal size. Women faint and are carried out. Civilians visit the ill-conditions of prisoners at surviving sections of the camp. A boy with severe trench foot wound. Truckloads of dead bodies of the victims of this camp.
President Harry S. Truman of the United States visits Berlin after World War II. President inspects the city of Berlin from an airplane. The houses destroyed in Berlin. Roofless houses, railway marshaling yards and other buildings near river Rhine as seen during aerial inspection. The Olympic Stadium of Berlin. Tracks and grounds for various Olympic events.
President Harry S. Truman of the United States visits Berlin after World War II. President's plane lands on ground at the Gatow Airport in the outskirts of Berlin, after an aerial inspection of Berlin. Secret serviceman keeps a watch in sky. Security guards and officials at the airfield. President Truman surrounded by secret servicemen, descends from the plane after aerial inspection. He moves towards terminal building.