Hanging of a Nazi war criminal in Landsberg, Germany after end of World War 2. . American Military officers stand and converse near the gallows. The condemned man, attended by guards and a priest, comes out of a building. They climb the stairs of the scaffold for hanging. An American Field Grade Officer speaks of charges against the condemned man. Soldiers stand near the gallows and watch the hanging. The hooded, condemned man is dropped through a trap by the executioner, Johann Reichhardt, who wears the traditional German executioners’ attire of black coat, white shirt and, black bow tie and black hat. (Reichardt who is clearly seen standing on the platform, was a principal executioner for the Third Reich. But he was subsequently employed by the Occupation Authorities from November 1945, through May, 1946. to help execute Nazi war criminals at Landsberg am Lech by hanging. He was subsequently arrested in 1947, interned, and tried in a tribunal at Munich, where he was sentenced to strict punishment measures.) A military doctor uses a stethoscope to confirm death of the hanging man.
Investigation of a Jewish DP Camp (Displaced Persons Camp) in Landsberg, Germany. Lieutenant General Bedell Smith accompanied by Major General Albert W Kenner, Judge S H Rifkin (Theater Commander's Advisor on Jewish Affairs), correspondents and photographers. Officers talk and discuss with each other. The inspection party moves out of a building. They walk towards other sections of the camp. Snow covered houses and barrack buildings. Men gather outside a barrack. The inspection party observes refugee men inside a section of camp. Section for women at the camp. View of children as refugee boys drink milk offered to them.
Investigation of Jewish Displaced Persons Camp in Landsberg, Germany. Lieutenant General Bedell Smith accompanied by Major General Albert W Kenner, Judge S H Rifkin (Theater Commander's Advisor on Jewish Affairs), correspondents and photographers. Snow covered barrack buildings at the camp. A man carries Red Cross supplies. The inspection party tours the barracks and various buildings at the camp. They talk and discuss with other residents. Jewish people dine at a barrack. A huge camouflaged building. Officers inspect other building and the women's section. A large Quonset hut and a chamber at the camp.
Investigation of Jewish Displaced People's Camp in Landsberg, Germany. Lieutenant General Bedell Smith accompanied by Major General Albert W Kenner, Judge S H Rifkin (Theater Commander's Advisor on Jewish Affairs), correspondents and photographers. Officers enter two large buildings at the camp. Snow covered houses at the camp. The inspection party views medical patients in rooms and talks to some of them. Officers and others walk out of buildings talking with each other and enter another building. The people at the camp watch them closely. The officers enter a work shop where a man demonstrates a lathe machine. The inspection party views small tool items in a case, and then walks outside where exteriors of the buildings are seen.
German civilians move dead bodies of atrocity victims at Stalag 4 Concentration Camp in Landsberg, Germany. Dead bodies of prisoners. German civilians move bodies of Jewish concentration camp victims for burial. Semi-underground barracks building used to house the prisoners. Line of dead bodies of highly emaciated victims of Nazi atrocities in the camp.
A board reads "Landsberg Reg Bez Oberbayern" at Stalag 4 Concentration Camp in Landsberg, Germany. Doubled barbed wire fence surrounds the camp. Jeeps at one side of the fence. German civilians dig up dead Jewish prisoners. A liberating U.S. Army soldier views from a watch tower. Dead bodies lay on ground. (World War II period).