A memorial ceremony at Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany during World War II. A military band plays. Camp buildings in the background. Liberated prisoners march during the memorial ceremony for the people killed in the camp. They carry French, Polish and Russian flags. A prisoner places a wreath at the foot of the monument dedicated to victims of Nazi brutality. Children march during the ceremony. A speaker addresses the gathering from a platform during the dedication ceremony. Flags flutter in wind. An effigy of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler hangs in front of the camp buildings.
Mass burial at the site of the Gardelegen massacre, in Gardelegen, Germany, late in World War II. View of the barn on the Isenschnibbe estate in Gardelegen where 1016 prisoners had been barricaded by Nazi forces and civilian accomplices on April 13, 1945, and then died after the barn was set on fire. German civilians walking among dead bodies outside the barn. Germany civilians walk carrying stretchers. They place burned bodies of Nazi atrocity victims on the stretchers. They carry the bodies to burial grounds. (Many of the dead were concentration camp prisoners and slave laborers in transit from the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp and the Hannover-Stöcken Concentration Camp. The massacre was discovered by the U.S. Army 102nd Infantry Division when they entered the area on April 14, 1945, finding corpses in the barn and in nearby hastily dug mass graves. The U.S. Army ordered German civilians in the area to transport the bodies and dig graves for proper burial, from April 21-25, 1945.)
A mass burial in Gardelegen, Germany during World War II, for victims of the Gardelegen massacre. German civilians wrap dead bodies in shrouds and place them in individual graves. They pour dirt in the graves with shovels. Burned barn building in background.. They are burying concentration camp and slave laborer victims of nazi atrocities who died after being locked in the barn that was then set on fire, in Gardelegen, Germany, on April 13, 1945. The atrocity was discovered by the U.S. Army 102nd Infantry Division on April 14, which directed the German civilians to properly bury the victims from April 21-25, 1945.
Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany during World War II. A large crowd of German civilians moves in and about the concentration camp. Women weep. An inmate uncovers his feet and shows deterioration of toes due to lack of medical care. Wagons filled with dead bodies of victims. German civilians look at the dead bodies.
Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany during World War II. A large crowd of German civilians walks through streets. Trees in the background. A Military Police jeep moves on a street. The civilians arrive at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Vehicles parked in the camp area. Buildings in the background.
Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany during World War II. A large crowd of German civilians gathered at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Buildings in the background. Women weep.
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