View of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria. Cremation ovens used to execute the prisoners. A German guard held at gun point by the American troops. Liberated American speaks, surrounded by a group of prisoners. He is U.S. Navy Lieutenant Jack H. Taylor of Hollywood, California. Filmed by Lt. Col. George C. Stevens, he says that in October 1944 he was the first allied officer to drop into Austria. He says he was captured December 1, 1944 by the Gestapo, and severely beaten. He details his imprisonment time in Austria and then at Mauthausen. He shows insignia and dog tags of two American soldiers who were executed in a gas chamber of the camp by the Germans. He details the multiple methods used by the Germans to kill prisoners, including shooting, gas chamber, beating, exposure in the snow for 48 hours with cold water thrown on them, starvation, dogs, and pushing off a hundred foot cliff. He thanks the American 11th Armored Division for rescuing them. (World War II period).
Nazi concentration camp from World War II in Mauthausen, Austria. Piled up naked and exhumed corpses of the victims by Nazi German guards. Several scenes of the emaciated survivors.
Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria. Emaciated survivors help each other. A living, skeleton looking survivor given bath by another inmate. German civilians pile up naked and exhumed corpses of the victims onto horse carts. Several scenes of the emaciated survivors and exhumed corpses.
Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria. German civilians pile up naked and exhumed corpses of the victims onto horse carts. Several scenes of the emaciated survivors and exhumed corpses. Emaciated children, possibly teenage boys, among the survivors.
German civilians dig up a common burial ground outside the Nazi prison camp area in Mauthausen, Austria. Naked, exhumed and mutilated corpses of the victims of the concentration camp are put into the burial pit. Faces of the dead victims. (World War II period).
A Nazi concentration and death camp in Mauthausen, Austria after liberation during World War II. Large piles of dead bodies at the camp left behind by German guards. Individual bodies and leaned survivors near them. Piles of leaned, starved and tortured dead bodies scattered on the ground.