Congressman Everett Dirksen of Illinois, Chicago and U.S. Commander, John S Young arrive at camp Mettelbau-Dora (Nazi concentration camp) in Nordhausen, Germany. Dirksen and Young conduct a tour of the prison camp accompanied by U.S. Army officers. The visitors interview a released camp prisoner and visit German V-weapon ( V1s and V2s) manufacturing factories (Mittelwerk factory at Kohnstein).
A U.S. Army jeep drives past a road sign reading "Nordhausen, Harz." American GIs are seen mingling with German town folk in front of the Hasselee Hof. Two American soldiers talk with German girls. One soldier points to a tag with letter "P" on one girl's coat. A U.S. soldier drinks a small glass of spirits poured by a German workman, from a large wicker-covered container. U.S. soldiers wash and shave by a tank in front of a destroyed building. U.S. soldiers with army vehicles parked in the town. U.S. troops walk along sidewalk in Nordhausen. Views of many destroyed buildings. (World War II period).
German civilians carry corpses of the prisoners to a common burial ground outside the concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany. Several mutilated corpses of the prisoners lying outside the prison area. Catholic chaplain conducts burial rites at an altar set up on the hood of a U.S. Army jeep. Sick and dying prisoners are carried on stretcher to ambulances by U.S. medics and military police of the 3rd Armored Division and First U.S. Army (FUSA) soldiers. Several scenes of emaciated victims lying on stretchers. (World War II period).
German civilians carry corpses of the prisoners to a common burial ground outside the concentration camp in Nordhausen,Germany. Several mutilated corpses of the prisoners lying outside the prison area. A Catholic chaplain conducts burial rites at an altar set up on the hood of an U.S. Army jeep. Sick and dying prisoners are carried on stretcher to ambulances by U.S. medics and military police of the 3rd Infantry Division and First U.S. Army (FUSA) soldiers. Several scenes of emaciated victims lying on stretchers. (World War II period).
Aged victims of the concentration camp are boarded on trucks by U.S. medics of the U.S. Army 3rd Armored Division in Nordhausen,Germany. A concentration camp victim seated on the ground with a pot of food between his legs. The victim talks to U.S. Army soldiers. German civilians and American soldiers carry corpses of the prisoners to a common burial ground outside the concentration camp. Numerous corpses of the prisoners lying outside the camp area for burial. Scenes of mutilated sections of the corpses.
German civilians carry corpses of prisoners to a common burial ground outside the concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany . Several mutilated corpses of the prisoners lying outside the prison area. Sick and dying prisoners carried on stretchers to ambulances by U.S. medics and Military Police of the 3rd Armored Division and First U.S. Army (FUSA) soldiers. Several scenes of emaciated victims lying on stretchers. Two emaciated prisoners seated amidst rubble. Scenes of freed prisoners eating and talking. Prisoners and corpses inside the prison barracks. A starved prisoner eats an egg. Decaying cadavers of victims lying on filthy prison floors. German civilians carrying shovels move towards a common burial ground. German soldiers look at an open burial pit filled with corpses of victims. (World War II period).