The liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany, 5 days after its liberation by American forces in World War 2. German civilians view the camp. American soldiers direct them. Two ladies holding hands enter. Huge crowd of civilians gathered at the camp. Bright sunny day. Reactions on faces of German civilians as they view dead inmates and victims of Nazi brutality and atrocities at the camp. Lines of dead bodies and other parts of human bodies at the camp. Some citizens console other German citizens while they cry.
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany, near Weimar, five days after its liberation by U.S. Army forces in World War II. Lines of dead bodies of atrocity victims and other parts of human bodies of victims at the camp. German civilians walk around seeing the camp and evidence of Nazi brutality. Huge crowd gathers at the camp. Reactions on the faces of civilians seeing evidence of abuse and horros. Civilians crying and consoling other civilians.
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany. Photograph of Ilse Koch, wife of Karl-Otto Koch, former SS Commandant of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Close up view of the photograph, leaned against a helmet.
Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC. Adolf Hitler during a speech in Germany. In the speech Hitler proclaims his right to rid the world of inferior races. He addresses a large crowd of officers. The Nazi sense of justice as exemplified in aggressive wars and atrocities is compared with that of the war crime tribunals at Nuremberg. Scenes of victims of the German atrocities, including men, women, and children, and including executed American soldiers in uniform, shot in the back. Scenes from German concentration camps of atrocity victims. Dead bodies lie all over. Women weep seeing the dead bodies. Dead bodies loaded on a horse cart led by a man wearing a gas mask. A Nazi book burning rally during the night time, before the war. People hold flags. Concentration camp victims on litters being transported for medical care away from liberated concentration camps. Torture devices used at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Dead bodies covered with snow after exposure deaths.German Doctor Adolf Wahlmann, head physician at the Hadamar Euthanasia Centre, shows medicine bottles containing drugs used to kill the patients. View of a gas chamber. Foreign Ministries of three major powers sign the Moscow Declaration in London. German Nazi, Doctor Hans Frank speaking at a podium to a group of gathered German Nazi officials during World War 2. American soldiers on foot passing through rubble of a city in Europe during World War 2. View of a military tribunal hall as proceedings are about to begin. Civilian German men viewing a pile of bodies in a room in a German concentration camp, as they are shown the camp by American forces.
The Nuremberg Trials of Major War Criminals in Germany after World War II. The three trials conducted by the International Tribunal includes National Traitor Trial, Local Minor Trial and U.S. Military Trial. Officials march on the streets. People at either side of the street. Officials at a desk speak about the Master plan of World Domination. To help the prosecution U.S. President Harry S. Truman appoints Chief of Council Robert H. Jackson. United States Attorney General assisted by William Joseph Donovan and his staff to support America's outstanding legal talent who will join with Great Britain, France and Soviet Union. Officials at a desk. Prisoners and guards seen. Various officials of the United Nations at a desk. They speak about peaceful relations, harmony and the crime of war. A graveyard seen.
Robert H. Jackson and the International Military Tribunal Charter in Germany. Robert H. Jackson, United States Attorney General and the U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials gives a speech accepting his appointment. The Chief of Council, Great Britain, France and United States sign the International Military Tribunal Charter establishing the laws of crime against war, war crime and crime against humanity committed in World War II. Names of the indicted Major War Criminals at the Nuremberg prison.