During Nuremberg trial Hans Frank describes the Nazi policies of exterminating Poles and others. Atrocities inflicted on prisoners in Ourador Sur Glane, France in Bande, Belgium in Catacombe, Italy and in Czechoslovakia. Nazi German soldiers engaged in destruction following massacre of many residents in town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia in 1942 (retaliating for the assassination of SS officer Reinhard Heydrich.) Dead bodies in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, in 1945. Bones visible in crematory ovens. Victims inside crowded barracks including women prisoners who have been liberated. Large piles of items taken from victims before their deaths, including luggage, hair locks, toothbrushes, shaving cream brushes, shoes, clothing. Bones of victims piled at a concentration camp. Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (sometimes spelled Höß or Hoess or Hess) describes concentration camps at Auschwitz in Poland during testimony. Victims in hospitals are shown, as words of Hess describe medical experiments include lowering the body temperature, injecting the body with poisons and infectious diseases and subjecting victims to high altitude pressure chambers. View of mutilated corpses. Sign that reads, "Arbeit Macht Frei" over the Auschwitz concentration camp gated entrance. Corpses of victims in the concentration camps.
Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland after its liberation by Soviet troops towards the end of World War II. Bunk beds at Auschwitz show camp prisoners. Electrified wire fences at the camp. 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign at Auschwitz. A sign reads '6000 volt raum vorsicht lebensgefahr'. Women prisoners inside barracks. Pictures of various prisoners, from Poland, Czechoslovakia,and Hungary and Jews, Romanians,and others.
Red Army advances against German forces in Poland during the Vistula-Oder Offensive in World War 2. At the front Marshall Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov and Soviet officers look at a map. (Marshal Zhukov has cotton stuffed in his ears.) German ME-110 aircraft dive bomb Soviet positions. Soviet Ilyushin II-2 aircraft bomb German positions. Smoking terrain of battlefield. Soviet troops cross river in small boats. Soviets conduct an amphibious assault. There are explosions on the opposite shore. Russian infantry advances under German fire, cutting barbed wire and marking position of land mines. Soviet tanks and artillery fire. Marshalls Georgy Zhukov and Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovskiy look at a map. Shells explode and Soviet infantry advances past German antitank barricades. At the command post Marshall Georgy Zhukov looks at a map. Views of German defensive fortifications, including Barbed wire entanglements; concrete forts and bunkers, one with barbed wire on top and a periscope on a steel turret. German antitank barricades along the river.
Russian soldiers examine a warehouse at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland, soon after its liberation in World War 2. In the store house is evidence of Nazi German atrocities against prisoners. Images shown include high stacked bundles containing human hair, including braided locks; piles of false teeth and gold dental crowns, tools used for removing teeth from victims, a huge pile of thousands of pairs of eyeglasses, high piles of prisoner clothing, including clothing of young children such as a small shirt that is held and examined by Soviet soldiers; elevated view from ceiling of a giant warehouse room filled with clothing from prisoners; a giant pile of shoes from thousands of prisoners; piles of toothbrushes, hair brushes, and shaving brushes. View of a giant pile of suitcases and luggage from bearing stickers of residents from many European countries.
Common burial ceremony of the victims of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. Women weep beside grave. A band plays the funeral march. Choir boys follow the band. Many coffins are carried to large mass grave as hundreds attend ceremonies. Priests and flag bearers attend. Women weep as the huge grave is covered. Doctors examine some of the victims and survivors. An emaciated young man who had been a prisoner of the Nazi Germans. A young boy liberated prisoner with a severely injured right foot.
Scenes of Nazi brutality among atrocity victims at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. View of picture books of healthy children. Then views of sickly and injured infants and children from atrocities at the hands of Nazi Germans. Doctors examine sickly children. A young girl with leg injuries. A group of men with swollen ankles, all evidences of brutality. A young woman who is emaciated. A young boy with a head wound and walking disability. Film ends with photographs of the Nazi officers and concentration camp personnel who are responsible for conditions at the camp.