Breendonck Concentration Camp in Belgium after World War II. Prisoners demonstrate how they were tied in chains and then a tourniquet was applied to tighten the chains by Nazi German guards. A thumb screw is shown in operation.
Breendonck Concentration Camp in Belgium after World War II. A victim reveals results of beatings and cigarette burns. An inmate demonstrates how his crotch was split by the Nazi German guards. A woman reveals scars on her hips.
A Nazi concentration camp in Hanover, Germany after World War II. Views of the camp where only 200 remained of 10,000 Poles. Surviving prisoners in striped uniform walk behind barbed wire fences. The liberated prisoners are fed from a Red Cross truck. The prisoners eat. Some in bed are too weak to move. A dead prisoner is carried out and buried. An AMG (Allied Military Government) Sergeant checks a list of inmates. Victims speak about atrocities committed by the Nazis. A group of surviving inmates is photographed.
Arnstadt Concentration Camp in Germany captured by American forces in April, 1945 near the end of World War II. Prisoners were mainly Poles and Russians. View from the camp gate to tents which were used to house prisoners. Dogs were used to guard the prisoners. Shown is A dog kennel for a watch dog. Local German citizens had exhumed he bodies of concentration camp victims from their original mass grave, and reburied them in a trench further away from the town because of the stench. Now they were disinterring them again under supervision of United States Army soldiers. A corpse with crushed head. Corpses lying outside the graves from which they have just been exhumed. Bodies laid out on the ground are viewed by several U.S. soldiers
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. The group includes Frances E. Walters from Pennsylvania, Eugene Worley from Texas, Carter Manasco and Albert Rains from Alabama, Henry W. Jackson from Washington, Earl Wilson from Indiana, Marion Bennet from Missouri, Gordon Canfield from New Jersey, Major General Vanier of the Canadian Army and Major Walter Mosmiller of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces) who is in charge of the tour. The group views piles of dead bodies and crematoriums. The group poses in front of a memorial.
102nd Work Hungarian Regiment soldiers in Cham, Germany after their surrender towards the end of World War II. 102nd Work Hungarian Regiment soldiers with a large number of horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles and on foot advance on a road after surrendering. Hungarian soldiers near a field kitchen. Hungarian and American officers conversing.
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